Michael Ackland

Standard Name: Ackland, Michael

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Education Henry Handel Richardson
At different times she cited different reasons for her withdrawal: that she felt she could not bear the being the focus of audience attention in public performance, that her nerves went to pieces, that her...
Family and Intimate relationships Henry Handel Richardson
Her mother, born Mary Bailey , was the daughter of a widow who had successfully made herself a wage-earner to support a family of ten children. Mary married for love, having met her future husband...
Family and Intimate relationships Henry Handel Richardson
Olga Roncoroni became as close to HHR in her later years as a spouse or daughter. Richardson could not have managed without her. Biographer Michael Ackland considers the possibility of a lesbian element in this...
Literary responses Henry Handel Richardson
Where Michael Ackland has recently seen fantasy, omission, and transformation (with valuable light shed on HHR 's attitudes and imaginative life),
Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Elizabeth Bowen , reviewing the book on its first appearance, judged very differently...
Textual Features Henry Handel Richardson
The first of these stories takes up the later life of Mary, wife of Richard Mahony, and her children. The later sequence Growing Pains tackles the issue of women's sexuality from the standpoint of adolescents...

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Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004.