Henry Handel Richardson was the pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870-1946), an expatriate Australian novelist. She based a series of novels on characters and incidents taken mainly from her life. Born in Melbourne on Jan. 3, 1870, Ethel...

Henry Handel Richardson wrote novels that are among the most ambitious and intellectual ever written by an Australian; they have frequently been judged "great" by readers and critics. Her writing engaged with the major aesthetic arguments of the late...

Born in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Ethel Florence Lindesay, the writer known as Henry Handel Richardson, left her native country at the age of seventeen, returning only for one brief visit to refresh her memory while working on her Richard...

Developments in the study of Henry Handel Richardson, since her death in 1946 have been obvious and substantial. All of the significant critical commentators who knew her personally have since passed away. But since the 1980s, a great amount of documentary material in the...

Michael Ackland. Henry Handel Richardson : a Life. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004. The appearance of a new biography on Richardson necessarily raises the question of what remains to be said about her that has not been covered by others. Nettie Palmer, Olga...