HHR
's father, Walter Lindesay Richardson
, had roots in the Irish Protestant Ascendancy and had studied medicine at Edinburgh. His wide intellectual and professional interests included a specialism in obstetrics. While a student, however...
Textual Production
Henry Handel Richardson
After twenty years of research and writing, HHR
published her historical novel Australia Felix (first in a trilogy eventually entitled The Fortunes of Richard Mahony), which is based on the life of her father
.
Child, Harold H. “The Fortunes of Richard Mahony”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 815, p. 416.
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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.
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HHR
claims to remember almost nothing about her father
: one of the dimmest of the many dim...
