Henry Handel Richardson
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Standard Name: Richardson, Henry Handel
Birth Name: Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson
Nickname: Et
Nickname: Ettie
Married Name: Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson
Pseudonym: Henry Handel Richardson
In a publishing career that began in 1895 and first registered with the public in 1908, expatriate Australian
produced six novels (three of which make up an epic trilogy), a collection of short stories, and an enigmatic volume of memoirs. Her literary forebears were more continental European than either English or Australian, and her intellectualism and experimentalism produced a mixed reception, but her reputation as one of the important writers of the earlier twentieth century now seems secure.