- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE3744
Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel)
(1870 – 1946)- Born 3 January 1870, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Died 20 March 1946, London, , United Kingdom
- Occupation Author
Summary
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).
Events
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Archival resources
Published resources
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Resource Section
- Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel) (1871-1946), Green, Dorothy, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110392b.htm
- Richardson, Ethel Tracy (1877-1942), McCarthy, Perditta M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110393b.htm
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Resource
- Trove: Richardson, Henry Handel (18700103-19460320), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-520286
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Book
- Henry Handel Richardson, Kramer, Leonie, 1967
- Myself when Laura; Fact and fiction in Henry Handel Richardson's school career, Kramer, Leonie, 1966
- Henry Handel Richardson: A Study, Palmer, Nettie, 1950
- The End of a Childhood and Other Stories, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1934
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1968
- The Getting of Wisdom, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1931
- Maurice Guest, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1908
- The Young Cosima, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1939
- Henry Handel Richardson: A Life, Ackland, Michael, 2005
- Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction, Green, Dorothy, 1986
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Edited Book
- 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20071105022623/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/78644/20071105-1315/www.200australianwomen.com/index.html
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