Henry Handel Richardson
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Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author.
Henry Handel/Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson in 1945, a year before her death
Richardson with husband J.G. Robertson 1896
Lake View House at Chiltern, Victoria, her home from July 1876 for 18 months. Her early years at Chiltern featured in the novel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. The house was accepted by the National Trust of Australia in 1967.
Chiltern, Victoria
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Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, in the northeast of the state between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo. At the 2021 census, Chiltern had a population of 1,580. It is the birthplace of Prime Minister John McEwen. The town is close to the Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park. Chiltern was once on the main road between Melbourne and Sydney but is now bypassed by the Hume Freeway running one kilometre to the south.
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Lake View House at Chiltern, the home of author Henry Handel Richardson from July 1876 for 1½ years. Her early years at Chiltern featured in the novel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.
View of the lake from Lake View House. It was a swamp, not a lake, at the time the Richardson family lived in Chiltern.