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The Getting of Wisdom
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The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl's coming of age.
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One of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction, Laura Rambotham, aged twelve, enters the portals of an exclusive girls' school eager to be accepted. But this precocious country girl is snubbed and ridiculed by her fellow students, who are richer, more attractive and more adept at dealing with life's hypocrisies.
The Getting of Wisdom, a wicked and satirical novel on the pain and confusion of growing up, first appeared in 1910. A century later it has lost none of its bite.
In her splendid introduction, Germaine Greer describes this classic as 'Richardson's only great book precisely because the subject is, like the rest of us, ordinary, and therefore deeply important'.
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The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson is praised as a captivating coming-of-age story that gracefully intertwines charm and emotional depth.
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ISBN: 9781922079404
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 August 2012
Country: Australia
Imprint: Text Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 203g
Pages: 262
About the Author
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was sent to board at the Presbyterian Ladies College in 1883 - an experience that provided material for her novel The Getting of Wisdom. She published her first novel, Maurice Guest, in 1908. She took the pen name of Henry Handel Richardson and used it for all of her books. Richardson made her only journey back to Australia in 1912 to complete her research for the trilogy that would become The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. Her final novel The Young Cosima appeared in 1939. Henry Handel Richardson died in Sussex in 1946.
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