The getting of wisdom, Henry Handel Richardson
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- Boarding schools -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Girls -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Presbyterian Ladies' College (East Melbourne, Vic.) -- Fiction
- Private schools -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Private schools -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Boarding schools -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
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The getting of wisdom, Henry Handel Richardson
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
The getting of wisdom
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Henry Handel Richardson
Summary
Published in 1910, this coming-of-age novel was based on the author's teenage experiences as a boarder at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne from 1883-87. Her heroine, Laura Tweedle Rambotham, comes from a once well-off family now fallen on hard times. Smart and strong willed, Laura is hard pressed to retain her self-possession amid the countless small, tawdry humiliations of boarding-school life
Target audience
adult
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