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Henry Handel Richardson ; edited by Clive Probyn and Bruce
Steele
Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007
ISBN: 1740970985
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Book description
This is the first part of the Trilogy The fortunes
of Richard Mahony which is based on the original production of Henry Handel Richardson
(1870-1946) that spanned 12 years from first to last publication (1917 –
1929).
We cannot know the precise date when Henry Handel Richardson formed the idea
of a novel about the character that was to become Richard Mahony. In a
sense, the subject was always there, for Mahony was in most important ways
based upon her father. The novels were about Australia in the 1880s.
As early as 1888, while still a teenager, Richardson noted in her diary that
she had been reading the letters of her father and mother, Walter and Mary
Richardson, from the time of their courtship – letters which were to become
one of the main sources for the trilogy of novels. This correspondence
spanned twenty-five years, beginning 1854. It was the period of the Gold
Rush, sixteen years before Richardson’s own birth.
About the author
Professor Clive Probyn and Associate Professor Bruce
Steele work in the School of English, Communications and Performance
Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University.
The publication of the Trilogy (2007) is a result of the Monash
University Henry Handel Richardson project (1994 – 2006) which has been
generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the Faculty
of Arts at Monash University. In addition, there was also generous
support from Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC, DBE.
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