Henry Handel Richardson was the pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, nee Richardson (born January, 1870, Australia, died March 1946, England). In 1888 she left Australia to study music in Germany, and spent the rest of her life in Germany and England, making only one brief visit to Australia in 1912.
The Young Cosima was her last novel, first published in 1939. It tells the story of Cosima, the younger daughter of Franz Liszt, from her adolescence through her marriage to Hans von Bülow and her affair with Richard Wagner.
The text for this ebook was taken from a pdf in the Digital Library of India, kindly converted to HTML by Patrik Larsson, and checked against a copy of the Angus & Robertson 1984 paperback edition. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, made changes to spelling and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com, and added a brief table of contents.
The text contains many German, French, and Latin words. I have provided translations and explanations as end notes, and am very grateful for the help provided by members of the MobileRead Deutches and Français forums.
The cover was adapted from an image on the Henry Handel Richardson Society web page.
Version 2 corrects errors in the Annotations, and extends them
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