Henry Handel Richardson

Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was born on 3 January 1870 in Melbourne, the daughter of the physician Walter Lindesay Richardson, whose mental decline and death marked her childhood. A pupil at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, she left with her family for Europe in 1888 and studied piano at the Leipzig conservatory. She married the Germanist John George Robertson and lived in London from 1903, when he obtained a chair there. She published under the name Henry Handel Richardson and died of cancer on 20 March 1946, near Hastings.

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• NovelAustralia FelixHenry Handel Richardson · 1917LiteraturePublic domain