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The Getting of Wisdom
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  • Ethel Robertson
    Henry Handel Richardson

    Her second novel, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), is an account of her life at the boarding school in Melbourne. On completing it she began the trilogy that occupied the next 20 years of her life, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930; Australia Felix, 1917; The Way Home,…

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    Her second novel, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), is an account of her life at the boarding school in Melbourne. On completing it she began the trilogy that occupied the next 20 years of her life, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930; Australia Felix, 1917; The Way Home,…

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