Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946)
Autor/a de The Getting of Wisdom
Sobre l'autor
Henry Handel Richardson: January 3, 1870 - March 20, 1946 An expatriate writer, Henry Handel Richardson wrote one of Australia's classic works, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1917--1929). This was a pen name used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson. The three novels that make up her trilogy, mostra'n més Australia Felix (1917), The Way Home (1925), and Ultima Thule (1929), unfold the saga of Richard Mahony, a character loosely based on Richardson's physician-father. The trilogy is often labeled---not always in a complimentary manner---as "naturalistic," a literary form not currently popular. In recent years, however, readers have begun to approach it in different ways. For example, feminist critics have called attention to the novels' strong women, who provide the strength for the new nation. The trilogy has also been examined as an incisive psychological study of failure revealed through the complex character of Mahony. The novels are so rich in texture that they can also be read as late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social history, depicting as they do day-to-day life in the goldmining town of Balaraat and the colonial city of Melbourne. Richardson was born in Melbourne on January 3, 1870. At the age of 13, she became a boarder at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne. The experiences there she later used as the basis for The Getting of Wisdom (1910), which was turned into a highly successful film that helped to revive interest in Richardson's work. After graduating from this preparatory school, she received a musical scholarship to provide for further training in Leipzig. Later Richardson would use her experiences in Germany as the basis of her first novel, Maurice Guest (1908). Richardson married a Scottish professor of German and settled in London, remaining there and in the English countryside until her death. She returned to Australia only once or twice after her departure as a young girl; but in her imagination she must have gone back many times. In recognition of her literary achievements, Richardson was awarded the Australian Gold Medal and the King George Jubilee Medal. Richardson died of cancer on 20 March 1946 in Hastings, East Sussex, England. Her cremated remains were scattered by her wish with her husband's at sea. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson : the Getting of Wisdom, stories, selected prose and correspondence (1997) 6 exemplars
The End of a Childhood: Complete Stories of Henry Handel Richardson (Imprint classics) (1992) 6 exemplars
Two Studies 3 exemplars
The Henry Handel Richardson Collection: 5 Novels inclusing Maurice Guest, The Getting of Wisdom, Australia Felix, The… (2017) 1 exemplars
Collected Stories 1 exemplars
The Bath 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Col·laborador — 448 exemplars
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850S-1930s (1987) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Richardson, Henry Handel
- Nom oficial
- Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay
- Altres noms
- Richardson, Henry Handel (pseudonym)
Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay (birth name) - Data de naixement
- 1870-01-03
- Data de defunció
- 1946-03-20
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Australia
- Lloc de naixement
- Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
- Lloc de defunció
- Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Leipzig, Germany
Regent's Park, London, England, UK - Educació
- Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
- Professions
- translator
novelist
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I have found it impossible to continue with this read right now. It is so boring that I literally fall asleep every time I pick it up. My mind is not at its best for focusing right now, so it may not be entirely the fault of the book.
In any event, I will put this one aside, unread, perhaps forever.
In any event, I will put this one aside, unread, perhaps forever.
This is a classic boarding school novel, but in contrast to the typical chronicle of boys’ hijinks, The Getting of Wisdom offers a feminine perspective. Laura Ramsbotham is from a modest Australian family, where her widowed mother earns a living as a seamstress. She has scrimped and saved to provide Laura with higher education, soLaura is shipped off to a girls’ boarding school when she’s about 11. Anyone who has been an 11-year-old girl knows how difficult it is to assimilate into established social groups, and Laura is no exception. The head of school and the teachers -- all women who should know better -- are of the “spare the rod and spoil the child” variety, and just expect everyone to get on with it, already. And of course Laura does, with some success but also pain and heartbreak.
The early chapters of this book are exceptionally well done, as you can’t help feeling sad for Laura and applauding even the tiniest positive happening. Laura eventually makes a couple friends, and then commits a huge blunder that is difficult for her to recover from. I felt the story lost some pacing after that and her last few years of school felt rushed. But the novel ends with an evocative metaphor that was, in fact, the perfect summing up of Laura’s school experience.… (més)
The early chapters of this book are exceptionally well done, as you can’t help feeling sad for Laura and applauding even the tiniest positive happening. Laura eventually makes a couple friends, and then commits a huge blunder that is difficult for her to recover from. I felt the story lost some pacing after that and her last few years of school felt rushed. But the novel ends with an evocative metaphor that was, in fact, the perfect summing up of Laura’s school experience.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 26
- També de
- 10
- Membres
- 1,406
- Popularitat
- #18,272
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 32
- ISBN
- 182
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 2
Update 10/5/23
And now you can, if you are so minded, read my journal notes about this novel in what I call Reviews from the Archive on my blog. See anzlitlovers.com/2023/05/10/australia-felix-1917-the-fortunes-of-richard-mahoney-1-by-henry-handel-richardson/… (més)