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'The writer whom many of the critics call one of the greatest of novelists has here told the story of her own childhood and youth. When Henry (Ethel F. Lindesay Robertson) died she left all but completed a volume of autobiography concerned with her youth in Australia, her subsequent stay in Leipzig and the first years of her intensely happy marriage. Final details were available from the notes and diary of her husband, and these together with an essay on her work are added to complete the book.' (Publication summary)
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The Art of Henry Handel Richardson : An Essay in Appreciative Criticism [1928-1929],
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criticism
biography
J. G. Robertson, HHR's husband, wrote this essay in1928-1929. He discusses the European influences on HHR's writing and calls Maurice Guest the greatest English naturalistic novel.
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Behaving Badly : The Coming-of-Age of a National Cinema
2013
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— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 350-356) -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
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— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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Overflow
2010
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 October 2010; (p. 23) -
What's in a Name? : Authorship, Autobiography, and Henry Handel Richardson's Myself When Young
2010
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— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 49-54) -
'Composing the Self' : Metaphors of Creativity in Henry Handel Richardson's Myself When Young
2005
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 205-216) 'This essay interrogates Richardson's representation of her choice of a literary over a musical career, arguing that this choice was a matter not only of ability and opportunity, but signals a shift from public and social performance to private literary production' (p. 205).
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Paperbacks
1993
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— Appears in: The Age , 9 January 1993; (p. 5)
— Review of Maurice Guest 1908 single work novel ; Myself When Young 1948 single work autobiography -
Enigma of Australian Letters
1948
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 August 1948; (p. 6)
— Review of Myself When Young 1948 single work autobiography -
[Review] Myself When Young
1948
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— Appears in: The Australian Observer , 10 July 1948; (p. 96)
— Review of Myself When Young 1948 single work autobiography -
[Review] Myself When Young
1948
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— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 7 no. 3 1948; (p. 195-196)
— Review of The Art of Henry Handel Richardson : An Essay in Appreciative Criticism [1928-1929] 1928 single work criticism biography ; Myself When Young 1948 single work autobiography -
Epitaph of a Novelist
1949
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 2 1949; (p. 89-92)
— Review of Myself When Young 1948 single work autobiography -
'Wishing Papa Was Dead?' : Henry Handel Richardson's Recasting of Her Troubled Childhood in 'Myself When Young'
2003
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— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 48 no. 2003; (p. 102-116) -
'Composing the Self' : Metaphors of Creativity in Henry Handel Richardson's Myself When Young
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 205-216) 'This essay interrogates Richardson's representation of her choice of a literary over a musical career, arguing that this choice was a matter not only of ability and opportunity, but signals a shift from public and social performance to private literary production' (p. 205). -
What's in a Name? : Authorship, Autobiography, and Henry Handel Richardson's Myself When Young
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 49-54) -
Overflow
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 October 2010; (p. 23) -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)