Henry Handel Richardson
Articles
- Review of Ulysses Bound, Henry Handel Richardson and her Fiction by Dorothy Green
The first full length study of Richardson to be published since Nettie Palmer's monograph in 1950 offers a critical reinterpretation and assessment of the fiction…
1 May 1974 - A Link with Late Nineteenth-Century Decadence in ‘Maurice Guest’
Palmer critiques Nietzschean readings of Maurice Guest, arguing that the character of Kraft is better served by viewing him 'as a Decadent figure and…
1 October 1972 - The Young Cosima
Green examines The Young Cosima by Henry Handel Richardson, arguing that Richardson's psychological portraits, in particular of the relationships between Wagna, Liszt, Bülow and Cosima…
1 May 1970 - ‘Richard Mahony’s Tragedy’1 May 1970
- ‘Maurice Guest’ and the Siren Voices
Stewart examines the European influence on Maurice Guest and demonstrates how Richardson extended and developed the techniques of J. P Jacobsen and others. Stewart explores…
1 October 1972 - The Prototype of Richard Mahony
Probably the most important of Richardson's sources for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony are those about which least is known The 'old letters and diaries'…
1 May 1970 - Review of Henry Handel Richardson: A Life, by Michael Ackland
Biography—life-writing—is a popular form these days. Ian Britain editorialised in Meanjin that in many cases it sells rather better than the average novel does. Why…
1 October 2006 - Mansfield and Richardson: A Short Story Dialectic
There was a time, though I think that time is past, when a young girl's first public appearance at a ball was a very significant…
1 October 1983 - The Reviewer and Miss Robertson
Recounts Henry Handel Richardson's tussle with reviewers critical of her translations of Norwegian novels Siren Voices and The Fisher Lass.
1 May 1984 - Review of Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters, edited by Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele, with Rachel Solomon and Patrick O'Neill
Literary embargo is one of the banes of most researchers. Who has not had a promising track of inquiry suddenly blocked by the familiar catalogue…
1 May 2002 - Review of Henry Handel Richardson: Fiction in the Making by Axel Clark, The Importance of Being Eve Langley by Joy L. Thwaite, and The Last Exquisite: A Portrait of Frederic Manning by Verna Coleman
Literary biography has emerged in the last ten years as one of the exciting and enduring strengths of Australian scholarship, with support from both major…
1 May 1991 - A Neglected Interview between Henry Handel Richardson and Brian Penton, 1931-1933
When Henry Handel Richardson died in March 1946 the first and certainly the most substantial Australian obituary was a two-page, illustrated essay in the Sydney…
1 May 1998 - Henry Handel Richardson Fifty Years On
Having been asked to speak at a Henry Handel Richardson seminar, on the particular question of developments in the study of her life and work…
1 May 1998 - ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’: The Correspondence Between H.H. Richardson and Her French Translator, Paul Solanges
Discusses Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence with the French translator of Maurice Guest, outlining major points of interest.
1 May 1998 - Building an Archive: The H.H. Richardson Papers in the National Library of Australia
Discusses the 'process whereby the Library built up its Richardson collections [the only surviving papers directly assembled and kept by Richardson during her lifetime] over…
1 May 1998 - Only ‘a well-schooled interpreter’: Henry Handel Richardson’s Final Year at the Leipzig Conservatorium and Its Authorial Recasting
The article uncovers new information on Henry Handel Richardson’s music studies at the Leipzig Conservatorium and casts light on her decision to give up a…
1 May 2005 - ‘A Depressed Amor’: Richardson’s ‘The Bathe: a Grotesque’
At a crucial point in 'The Bathe: a grotesque', the opening story of a series which Henry Handel Richardson named 'Growing Pains: sketches of girlhood'…
1 May 1992 - Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women’s Fiction: My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom
Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…
1 October 1983 - Lawrence of Arabia and H.H. Richardson
Discusses letters between Henry Handel Richardson, her publisher Jacob Schwartz and T.E. Lawrence, and Richardson's response to Lawrence's critique of her work.
1 May 1983 - Review of Henry Handel Richardson, by Michael Ackland, Henry Handel Richardson, edited by Susan Lever and Catherine Pratt, and The Tomis Complex: Exile and Eros in Australian Literature, by Irina Grigorescu Pana
It is fascinating to watch the ebbs and flows of the reputations of various Australian writers Someone like Douglas Stewart, for example, for years so…
1 October 1997
Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Michael Ackland
- Hanne K. Bock
- Patrick Buckridge
- Ruth Blair
- Delys Bird
- Rudolf Bader
- Margaret Clunies Ross
- Axel Clark
- I. M. Foster
- Carol Franklin
- Carol Franklin
- Dorothy Green
- Susan Magarey
- Anthony J. Palmer
- Graeme Powell
- Ken A. Stewart
- Ken A. Stewart
- Ken A. Stewart
- Elizabeth Webby