Bøger af Henry Handel Richardson

The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since.Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of 13 to 17 Richardson attended boarding school at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, Victoria. It's this experience that feeds directly into The Getting of Wisdom.

Henry Handels Richardsons historiske roman "Den unge Cosima" fortæller om nogle af det 19. århundredes største europæiske musikere og komponister. Den unge Cosima er datter af komponisten Franz Liszt, som overtaler hende til at gifte sig med den talentfulde, men nervøse og ustabile pianist Hans von Bülow. Ægteskabet er ikke lykkeligt, og da Cosima møder sin mands bedste ven, den store komponist Richard Wagner, oplever hun en blanding af indignation over Wagners elendige behandling af hendes mand og en tiltrækning af det hensynsløse og charmerende geni, der synes at opsluge alle, der kommer i nærheden af ham.Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870-1946) var en australsk forfatter, der skrev under pseudonymet Henry Handel Richardson. Hun tilbragte en stor del af sit liv i England, hvor hun døde i 1946. Richardson debuterede i 1908 med romanen "Maurice Guest", men er mest kendt for sin romantrilogi "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony".