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...
Residence
Henry Handel Richardson
HHR
's mother
set sail with her elder and younger daughter
from Melbourne, Australia, for London. Her chief aim was to further a musical career for Ethel.
Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
xvi, 75
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Henry Handel Richardson
The book opens: It has never been my way to say much about my private life.
Richardson, Henry Handel. Myself When Young. Heinemann, 1964.
1
HHR
claims to remember almost nothing about her father
: one of the dimmest of the many dim...
