Henry Handel Richardson

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethel Florence Richardson was a prominent Australian writer who wrote under the pen name Henry Handel Richardson. Some of Richardson's most famous works include The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest, and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. This edition of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony includes a table of contents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charles River Editors
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781537814483
• Artikelnr.: 54269226

Autorenporträt

Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, known by her literary name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author. Ethel Florence (who liked to be known as Et, Ettie, or Etta) was the eldest daughter of Walter Lindesay Richardson MD and his wife Mary (née Bailey). She was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, into a rich family that later struggled financially. Throughout Richardson's childhood and youth, the family moved about Victoria. These included Chiltern, Queenscliff, Koroit, and Maldon, where Richardson's mother was a postmistress (her father died of syphilis when she was nine). The Richardsons' home in Chiltern, "Lake View," is now held by the National Trust and open to the public. Richardson left Maldon in 1883 to become a boarder at Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC) in Melbourne, where she studied from the ages of 13 to 17. H. G. Wells appreciated the coming-of-age novel The Getting of Wisdom, which was inspired by this experience. At PLC, she began to hone her ability to blend fact and fiction convincingly, a technique she later employed to great effect in her novels. Richardson excelled in the arts and music while at PLC, and her mother relocated the family to Europe in 1888 so Richardson could pursue her musical studies at the Leipzig Conservatorium. Richardson based her debut novel, Maurice Guest, on Leipzig.