The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 25th June 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 2
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1) Editorial
2) News
3) Notes and Queries
4) Mailing list information
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1) Editorial
Hello,
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3) Notes and Queries
Featured Author - Henry Handel Richardson
From Col Choat
Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson) is one of
Australia's premier writers. A number of her books are at PG in the US and,
for Australian readers, and readers in other "plus fifty" countries, there
are further works at http://www.gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html
This brief biography has been taken from the Perry Middlemiss Literature
page:
"Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson) was born in
1870 in Melbourne, Victoria. She was born in a prosperous family which later
fell on hard times. Her family lived in various towns in Victoria during her
childhood and youth and she attended Presbyterian Ladies College between the
ages of 13 and 17. (This experience was the basis for her novel 'The Getting
of Wisdom.') She excelled at music during her time at PLC and her mother
took the family (her father having died in 1879) to Europe to enable Ethel
to continue her musical studies at Leipzig.
"Ethel married J.G. Robertson in 1894 and later moved to London in 1903
where her husband has been appointed to a chair of German at the University
of London. She visited Australia again in 1912 for several months before
returning to England where she lived for the rest of her life. Ethel
Richardson died in 1946."
There is also a bibliography at Middlemiss' site at
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/richardsonhh.html
'The Getting of Wisdom' is a classic in the genre of child autobiography. To
quote from the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature "...is comically
ironic in tone, but has a serious subject, the story of an artists painful
inner growth during her impressionable adult years."
Col Choat
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