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(birth name: Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson ) (a.k.a. Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay; Robertson, Ethel F. L. )
Born: 3 Jan 1870 Melbourne, Victoria
Died: 30 Mar 1946 Sussex, England
Gender: Female
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'Henry Handel Richardson' was the pseudonym for Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson. She was born in Melbourne in 1870, the daughter of Walter and Mary Richardson who had migrated from England in the early 1850s. Her father's career as a doctor on the goldfields and her parents' interest in mining and the share market exposed her to the major social and economic developments of nineteenth century Australia, an experience that would inform her writing in later life. Richardson attended the Presbyt....

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