• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE3744

Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel)

(1870 – 1946)
  • Born 3 January, 1870, Fitzroy, Melbourne Victoria Australia
  • Died 20 March, 1946, London United Kingdom
  • Occupation Author

Summary

Ethel Richardson was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne, and the Royal Conservatorium at Leipzig. As Henry Handel Richardson, she became one of Australia’s best-known and best-loved novelists, finding fame with Maurice Guest (1908) and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (published in three parts between 1917 and 1929).

Events

  • 2001

    Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women

Archival resources

  • State Library of Victoria
    • Papers, [manuscript].
  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers and correspondence of Henry Handel Richardson, 1852-1983 [microform]
    • Collection of Bruce Steele relating to Henry Handel Richardson, between approximately 1930 and 2003

Published resources

  • Resource Section
  • Resource
  • Book
    • Henry Handel Richardson, Kramer, Leonie, 1967
    • Myself when Laura; Fact and fiction in Henry Handel Richardson's school career, Kramer, Leonie, 1966
    • Henry Handel Richardson: A Study, Palmer, Nettie, 1950
    • The End of a Childhood and Other Stories, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1934
    • The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1968
    • The Getting of Wisdom, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1931
    • Maurice Guest, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1908
    • The Young Cosima, Richardson, Henry Handel, 1939
    • Henry Handel Richardson: A Life, Ackland, Michael, 2005
    • Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction, Green, Dorothy, 1986
  • Edited Book
    • 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988
  • Finding Aid
    • Henry Handel Richardson 1870-1946: A bibliography to honour the centenary of her birth, Howells, Gay, 1970

Related entries


  • Related Organisations
    • Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne (1875 - )