Fb2 Maurice Guest (Virago Modern Classic) ePub
by Henry Handel Richardson
Category: | Ethnic and National |
Subcategory: | Memoris and Biographies |
Author: | Henry Handel Richardson |
ISBN: | 0385277873 |
ISBN13: | 978-0385277877 |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Doubleday; First Edition edition (March 1, 1983) |
Pages: | 562 |
Fb2 eBook: | 1517 kb |
ePub eBook: | 1418 kb |
Digital formats: | mbr lrf lrf txt |
Series: A Virago modern classic. Paperback: 233 pages.
Series: A Virago modern classic. ISBN-13: 978-0385271899. Package Dimensions: . x . inches.
The author's real mame was Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson. About the author: Henry Handel Richardson is a pen-name Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson - an Australian writer. This book is a sort of the author’s auto-biography: by reading her biography, one learns that After visiting relations in England, the family moved to Leipzig, Germany, where Ethel enrolled at the Royal Conservatorium in April 1889 to study the piano, and her sister the violin.
Henry Handel Richardson. They hummed like bees before a hive. Maurice Guest, who had come outamong the first, lingered to watch a scene that was new to him, ofwhich he was as yet an onlooker only
Henry Handel Richardson. Maurice Guest, who had come outamong the first, lingered to watch a scene that was new to him, ofwhich he was as yet an onlooker only. Here and there came a member ofthe orchestra; with violin-case or black-swathed wind-instrument inhand, he deftly threaded his way through the throng, bestowing, as hewent, a hasty nod of greeting upon a colleague, a sweep of the hat onan obsequious pupil.
Maurice Guest (1908) is the debut novel by Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson. In turn-of-the-century Leipzig, Maurice Guest, a young English provincial, falls madly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer
Maurice Guest (1908) is the debut novel by Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson. In turn-of-the-century Leipzig, Maurice Guest, a young English provincial, falls madly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer
Henry Handel Richardson's first novel, Maurice Guest, explores the consuming power of sex and love. I republished it as a Virago Modern Classic in 1981, convinced that it would sell in considerable quantities and be accepted as the masterpiece I thought it to be. I was wrong.
Henry Handel Richardson's first novel, Maurice Guest, explores the consuming power of sex and love. On its centenary, Carmen Callil looks into the mystery that still surrounds the story and its author. Maurice Guest continues, now as then, to be always forgotten, always rediscovered.
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 1870 – 20 March 1946), known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 1870 – 20 March 1946), known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author. Born in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, into a prosperous family that later fell on hard times, Ethel Florence (who preferred to answer to Et, Ettie or Etta) was the elder daughter of Walter Lindesay Richardson MD (c. 1826–1879) and his wife Mary (née Bailey).
Henry Handel Richardson was born in Melbourne in 1870. Richardson was sent to board at the Presbyterian Ladies College in 1883, an experience that provided material for her novel The Getting of Wisdom. In 1888, she travelled to Europe, married and settled in London. Richardson published her first novel, Maurice Guest, in 1908. Her final novel The Young Cosima appeared in 1939. Germaine Greer is a well-known feminist and writer. Henry Handel Richardson.
Virago Modern Classics (Book 528). Daphne du Maurier lived in her beloved Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline, wild terrain, and tumultuous weather inspired her imagination, and many of her works are set there, including 'Frenchman's Creek', 'Jamaica Inn', and 'Rebecca'. Here she celebrates the land she loved, exploring its legends, its history, and its people, and eloquently makes a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation. Carmen Callil founded Virago Press in 1972 and later became managing director of Chatto & Windus and the Hogarth Press
A passionate and controversial novel, set in turn-of-the-century Europe . Henry Handel Richardson was born in Melbourne in 1870. Carmen Callil founded Virago Press in 1972 and later became managing director of Chatto & Windus and the Hogarth Press. Since 1995 she has worked as a writer and critic.
48 The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson. 49 Maurice Guest Henry Handel Richardson. 50 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 51 The House in Dormer Forest Mary Webb.