Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel) (1870 - 1946)

Ethel Richardson was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, and the Royal Conservatorium at Leipzig. As Henry Handel Richardson, she became one of Australia's best-known and best-loved novelists, finding fame with Maurice Guest (1908) and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (published in three parts between 1917 and 1929).

Books

• Ackland, Michael, Henry Handel Richardson: A Life, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, Vic, 2005. [ Details... ]
• Green, Dorothy, Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986. [ Details... ]
• Kramer, Leonie, Myself when Laura; Fact and fiction in Henry Handel Richardson's school career, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1966, 32 pp. [ Details... ]
• Kramer, Leonie, Henry Handel Richardson, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1967, 30 pp. [ Details... ]
• Palmer, Nettie, Henry Handel Richardson: A Study, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1950, 214 pp. [ Details... ]
• Richardson, Henry Handel, Maurice Guest, Heinemann, London, 1908. [ Details... ]
• Richardson, Henry Handel, The Getting of Wisdom, Heinemann, London, 1931. [ Details... ]
• Richardson, Henry Handel, The End of a Childhood and Other Stories, W. Heinemann, London, 1934, 287 pp. [ Details... ]
• Richardson, Henry Handel, The Young Cosima, Heinemann, London, 1939. [ Details... ]
• Richardson, Henry Handel, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Heinemann Educational, Melbourne, 1968. [ Details... ]

Finding Aids

• Howells, Gay, Henry Handel Richardson 1870-1946: A bibliography to honour the centenary of her birth, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1970, 82 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]