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Product Identifiers
PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
ISBN-100522849369
ISBN-139780522849363
eBay Product ID (ePID)1847439
Product Key Features
Number of Pages808 Pages
Publication NameHenry Handel Richardson Vol 3 Vol. 3 : 1934-1946
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLetters, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorClive Probyn and Bruce Steele
FormatUk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight53.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-409141
Reviews"Punctiliously annotated, sumptuously bound and splendidly illustrated edition of the letter . . . an outstanding work of scholarship which would have delighted even that most fastidious of letter-writers." -- Times Literary Supplement, "Punctiliously annotated, sumptuously bound and splendidly illustrated edition of the letter . . . an outstanding work of scholarship which would have delighted even that most fastidious of letter-writers." - Times Literary Supplement, "This is a monumental work of Australian scholarship. This is a noble trilogy." - The Australian Financial Review, "This is a monumental work of Australian scholarship. This is a noble trilogy." -- The Australian Financial Review
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal823/.912 B
SynopsisFinal of a 3-volume edited collection of letters of Ethel Richardson, who wrote under the pen name of Henry Handel Richardson and whose publications included 'The Getting of Wisdom' and 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony'. This volume covers the period from 1934 until the author's death in 1946. Her principal correspondent in this volume is Mary Kernot, an old school friend. Provides information about Richardson's life and writings and her relationships with various contemporary figures. Includes chronology, explanatory notes, indexes, corrigenda for volumes 1 and 2, and ribbon marker. The editors teach in the English department of Monash University., The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence is a major event in Australian scholarly publishing. There are approximately fifteen hundred unpublished manuscript letters to and from HHR, of which almost a thousand are in her own hand. They form a correspondence between Australia, England, Germany, Italy and the USA over a seventy-year period, 1874 to 1946. The letters shed new light on Henry Handel Richardson's biography, her artistic methods, her personal life, her friendships (and antagonisms), her response to Australian readers and to expatriation, and her rigorous efforts to maintain a literary life apart from her personal life. The collection begins with HHR's earliest letter, then traces her student days in Leipzig, the publication of Maurice Guest, The Getting of Wisdom, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Young Cosima and The End of a Childhood, and her struggle late in life with the stringencies of wartime England. In this volume the widowed HHR moves to the Sussex village where she lived until her death. The letters cover the publication of The End of a Childhood and Other Stories, the ill-fated The Young Cosima and her incomplete memoir Myself When Young. War dominated the closing years of her life, and she reported her experiences graphically to Mary Kernot. She refused to leave her house, even while the Battle of Britain was being fought in the skies above her. The strain and deprivations of war weakened her. When unable to write, her companion and secretary Olga Roncoroni wrote for her, and these letters are included. Her last letter is a little pencilled note to Mary Kernot.
LC Classification NumberPR9619.3.R5Z48 2000
