Henry Handel Richardson : the Getting of Wisdom, stories, selected prose and correspondence / edited by Susan Lever and Catherine Pratt
- Bib ID:
- 1381449
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Qld., : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Oregon : Distributed in the USA by International Specialized Book Services, Inc., 1997
- xxiv, 268 p. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702229180 (paperback)
- Series:
- UQP Australian authors.
- Summary:
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"Henry Handel Richardson is one of Australia's most important writers. She grew up in Victoria in the late nineteenth century, and left Australia at the age of eighteen to pursue a musical career." "This volume includes The Getting of Wisdom (1910), based on Richardson's own experiences at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, in the late 1880s, together with four of her short stories about adolescence, an extract from her memoir Myself When Young, and some of her commentary and correspondence about the novel."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- The Getting of Wisdom
- Translations of epigraphs
- Conversation in a Pantry
- The Bath: An Aquarelle
- The Wrong Turning
- "And Women Must Weep"
- Chapters V and VI (1948) from Myself When Young
- My Favourite Among My Books
- Some Notes on My Books
- Correspondence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268).
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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