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.
xvi, 75
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...
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.
1
HHR
claims to remember almost nothing about her father
: one of the dimmest of the many dim...