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Henry Handel Richardson : the letters, volume 1 Edited by Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele Published by Miegunyah Press Melbourne University Press (2000) |
Book description
This is the first of a three-volume set containing approximately 1800 letters to and from
Richardson, which form a correspondence between Australia, England, Germany, Italy and the
USA for the period 1874 to 1946. The letters shed light on Richardson's biography, her artistic
methods, her personal life, her friendships (and antagonisms), her response to Australian readers
and to expatriation, and her efforts to maintain a literary life apart from her personal life.
They include her earliest known letter, and trace her student days in Leipzig, the publication of
"Maurice Guest", "The Getting of Wisdom", "The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney", "The End of
Childhood" and "The Young Cosima", and her experience of life in wartime England. Some of
the most vivid letters describe her schooldays (the biographical context for "The Getting of
Wisdom"), her memories of the Australian bush, her relationship with Vance and Nettie Palmer,
her meetings with Miles Franklin and her views on contemporary writing. The letters to Mary
Kernot provide constant linkages between life in England and Australia during the most
formative period for Australian literature (including the negotiations for her Nobel Prize
nomination).
About the Author
Professor Clive Probyn and Associate Professor Bruce Steele are both from the English Department at Monash University, where they have set up the Henry Handel Richardson Project. The aim of the Henry Handel Richardson Project is to produce full critical editions of Henry Handel Richardson's complete prose and music.
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