Historical Fiction Richardson, Henry Handel: The Getting of Wisdom. v1. 26 Jan 2017

[AlexBell]

Henry Handel Richardson was the nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, nee Richardson (born January, 1870, Australia, died March 1946, England). She had one sister, born in 1871. In 1888 she left Australia and spent the rest of her life in Germany and England, making only one brief visit to Australia in 1912.

The Getting of Wisdom was her second and favourite novel, first published in 1910. It is an account of a young girl's life in her family and at boarding school, and was highly regarded by H. G. Wells.

The text for this ebook was taken from The University of Adelaide ebook library, and checked against the Penguin edition. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, used British English, made changes to spelling and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com, and added translations and notes.

The cover is taken from the Henry Handel Richardson Society website.

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