Henry Handel Richardson

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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    January 2014
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Book List in Order: 5 titles

  • The Getting of Wisdom

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    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...

  • Fortunes of Richard Mahony

    The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Australia's most significant nineteenth-century work. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based on the author's own father, and his rise and tragic fall in Australia's gold rush.Despite a happy marriage and...

  • Growing Pains - The End of a Childhood

  • Australia Felix

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    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...

  • Maurice Guest

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    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...



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Henry Handel Richardson has published 5 books.

Henry Handel Richardson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Growing Pains - The End of a Childhood, was published in January 2014.

The first book by Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom, was published in January 1981.

No. Henry Handel Richardson does not write books in series.
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