tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post705879687512363352..comments2024-03-22T03:10:02.053-07:00Comments on THE BLUE LANTERN: Unforgettable Maurice GuestJane Librizzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-67470199933079615712014-04-24T06:23:18.629-07:002014-04-24T06:23:18.629-07:00Hels, lucky you! It wasn't until I saw the mo...Hels, lucky you! It wasn't until I saw the movie The Getting of Wisdom that I even knew Richardson existed.<br />After reading Maurice Guest in the Virago edition of the 1980s, it wasn't until 2004 that I found Michael Ackland's biography (Henry Handel Richardson: A Life, Cambridge University Press). It's so unfair that we have to wait so long to learn about women. Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-25569881549040046102014-04-24T02:53:11.575-07:002014-04-24T02:53:11.575-07:00In year 12, last year of high school, every studen...In year 12, last year of high school, every student has to critically read a couple of novels taken from a short list. One of them in Melbourne always had to be Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom which I loved.<br /><br />What I did not know was that Ethel Richardson studied music in Leipzig, abandoning that career because the scary public recitals. It was have been appropriate, I think, to know how Richard came to understand human psychology through the new work then being published of Freud and through the plays of Ibsen and Strindberg. But hey.. I was finishing school in 1965. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com