The Getting of Wisdom is a 1977 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford and based on the 1910 novel of the same name by Henry Handel Richardson.The film is set in 1890s Victoria, when Laura (Susannah Fowle) enters an exclusive Melbourne ladies' c...
A superb, sprawling trilogy of a family fortune won and lost in gold-rush Australia: an Australian classic. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Australia's most significant nineteenth-century novel. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based o...
Published in 1917, this was the first volume in Richardson's trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. Dr. Richard Townshend-Mahony -- a character based on Richardson's father -- has come to Australia in search of gold, but finds instead love, m...
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