Author(s): Clive Probyn (Editor); Bruce Steele (Editor)

Literary biography

The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence is a major event in Australian scholarly publishing. There are approximately 1,500 unpublished manuscript letters to and from HHR, of which almost a thousand are in her own hand. They form a correspondence between Australia, England, Germany, Italy, and the USA over a 70-year period, 1874 to 1946.