Henry Handel Richardson 1934 1946

The Council of the National Library, in arranging a one day seminar, an evening public lecture and an exhibition for 23 November, 1970 to honour the centenary of Henry Handel Richardson's birth, decided also to publish a Henry Handel Richardson bibliography. This bibliography records not only printed works, but also a range of other source materials including the writer's original manuscripts held in the National Library. It has been compiled by Gay Howells who has also chosen the items for exhibition.

'Fifty-five heads turned as if by clockwork, and fifty-five pairs of eyes were levelled at the small girl in the white apron who meekly followed Mrs Gurley down the length of the dining-room. Laura crimsoned under the unexpected ordeal, and tried to fix her attention on the flouncing of Mrs Gurley's dress. The room seemed hundreds of feet long, and not a single person at the tea-tables but took stock of her. The girls made no scruple of leaning backwards and forwards, behind and before their neighbours, in order to see her better, and even the governesses were not above having a look.' Henry Handel Richardson's first novel is a coming-of-age novel story, set in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. When clever and imaginative Laura Rambotham leaves her home to attend a prestigious ladies' college, she finds herself compromising her ideals in an effort to fit in. The Getting of Wisdom is a portrait of an artistic and unwieldy soul chafing against stuffy ordinariness, told with great empathy and passion.

Final of a 3-volume edited collection of letters of Ethel Richardson, who wrote under the pen name of Henry Handel Richardson and whose publications included 'The Getting of Wisdom' and 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony'. This volume covers the period from 1934 until the author's death in 1946. Her principal correspondent in this volume is Mary Kernot, an old school friend. Provides information about Richardson's life and writings and her relationships with various contemporary figures. Includes chronology, explanatory notes, indexes, corrigenda for volumes 1 and 2, and ribbon marker. The editors teach in the English department of Monash University.

Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a towering novel.

Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. This anthology registers that fact in as encompassing and enlightening a way as possible. Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism."

This book contains a collection of short stories. In this book, the author explores themes that revolve around childhood sensuality and the challenges of growing up in the Victorian era. The book contains: The End of a Childhood: Four Further Chapters In The Life of Cuffy Mahony - Growing Pains: Sketches of Girlhood - The Bathe - Three in a Row - Preliminary Canter - Conversation in a Pantry - The Bath - The Wrong Turning - "And Women Must Weep" - Two Hanged Women - Two Tales of Old Strasbourg: Life and Death of Peterle Luthy - The Professor's Experiment - Succedaneum - Mary Christina - The Coat - Sister Ann