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  • Volume I : 1874-1915 Volume II : 1917-1933 Volume III : 1934-1946. Also available as a boxed set. Contents not indexed separately

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“I Must Have a Mask to Hide Behind” : Signature, Imposture and Henry Handel Richardson Fiona Morrison , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; 'If the archive is, according to Derrida, a site of revelation and concealment, so too is the pseudonym, the 'false' proper name used to sign and thereby guarantee the 'true' authenticity of original works. This paper concerns itself with the double possibilities of the true writer and the fake name instantiated by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson's use of the pseudonym Henry Handel Richardson, and the concomitant economy of the secret and the disclosed in all that related to her authorial signature. Richardson's deployment of her male pseudonym (and the other signatures she used to distinguish and manage different literary labour) will be considered in the context of expatriate literary production and reception. This paper will suggest that where the masculine proper name was one way in which nineteenth century British women writers negotiated their literary marketplace, Richardson's pseudonym more particularly allowed her to mediate and control proliferating complexities of genre, mode and national identity.

Emerging from these material considerations, several other questions will be considered in light of Richardson's fiction, letters and autobiography. The question of pseudonym as a form of cross-gender disguise or performance and the attendant possibilities of female spectatorship/authorship will be addressed in light of Richardson's early naturalism and its relation to decadence and aestheticism.' (Author's abstract)
Untitled Michael Ackland , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 3 2002; (p. 278-281)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
The Writing of Wisdom John Sendy , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , January-February vol. 12 no. 1 2002; (p. 44-45)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
Untitled Ann Curthoys , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , October vol. 32 no. 117 2001; (p. 361-362)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
A Difficult Artist Maureen Bettle , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 29 2001; (p. 146-149)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence ; Walter and Mary : The Letters of Walter and Mary Richardson Walter Lindesay Richardson , Mary Richardson , 2000 selected work correspondence
Hard to Get a Handel On Brenda Niall , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 September 2000; (p. 8)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
Henry was Really Ethel Brian Kiernan , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 September 2000; (p. 12)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
A Handle on Henry Peter Pierce , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 September vol. 118 no. 6242 2000; (p. 98)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
Dead Letters Laurie Clancy , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (2000-2001) no. 227 2000; (p. 24-25)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence ; Walter and Mary : The Letters of Walter and Mary Richardson Walter Lindesay Richardson , Mary Richardson , 2000 selected work correspondence
Life's Trumpery Business Elizabeth Lowry , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 5 January no. 5101 2001; (p. 3-4)
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence
“I Must Have a Mask to Hide Behind” : Signature, Imposture and Henry Handel Richardson Fiona Morrison , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; 'If the archive is, according to Derrida, a site of revelation and concealment, so too is the pseudonym, the 'false' proper name used to sign and thereby guarantee the 'true' authenticity of original works. This paper concerns itself with the double possibilities of the true writer and the fake name instantiated by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson's use of the pseudonym Henry Handel Richardson, and the concomitant economy of the secret and the disclosed in all that related to her authorial signature. Richardson's deployment of her male pseudonym (and the other signatures she used to distinguish and manage different literary labour) will be considered in the context of expatriate literary production and reception. This paper will suggest that where the masculine proper name was one way in which nineteenth century British women writers negotiated their literary marketplace, Richardson's pseudonym more particularly allowed her to mediate and control proliferating complexities of genre, mode and national identity.

Emerging from these material considerations, several other questions will be considered in light of Richardson's fiction, letters and autobiography. The question of pseudonym as a form of cross-gender disguise or performance and the attendant possibilities of female spectatorship/authorship will be addressed in light of Richardson's early naturalism and its relation to decadence and aestheticism.' (Author's abstract)
Letters Probe the Public Mystique Catherine Cecilia Pratt , 2000 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 August 2000; (p. 4-5)
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