Henry Handel Richardson's birthday tea at Lake View

Name: Henry Handel Richardson's birthday tea at Lake View
Start: 2024-01-03T18:00:00+1100
End: 2024-01-03T21:00:00+1100
Location: Lake View House

Wed, 3 Jan 2024, 6pm - 9pm AEDT

Lake View House

Chiltern VIC, Australia

Henry Handel Richardson Society

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Come and share this special occasion at the writer's home with HHR fans, residents of Chiltern and members of the Henry Handel Richardson Society.

BYO or order a picnic box at sundaymorningchiltern@gmail.com by December 17.

Tea, coffee, cake, tables and chairs will be provided.

Vaughn Clarke, National Trust manager will speak on what's coming up at Lake View and Brigid Magner of RMIT University talk about the special relics of Lake View

Further enquiries: Chiltern Information Centre 57261611

Graeme Charles at graemecharles@gmail.com or Gloria Banks at hamlyn45@gmail.com

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Henry Handel Richardson is the pseudonym of the celebrated Australian-born writer, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870-1946). Her early novels, Maurice Guest (1908) and The Getting of Wisdom (1910) were acclaimed by prominent writers and critics in England, America and Europe, and in Australia in the mid-1920s when Nettie Palmer began to champion her works.

Today, HHR retains an important place in Australia’s literary history. Her work and life continue to be studied and enjoyed by readers, scholars, creative artists, family historians, literary tourists and other interested parties worldwide.

Tributes to her include a plaque on Sydney Writers Walk, the naming of a suburb of Canberra and a residential hall at Monash University, a dedicated National Trust House in Chiltern, and portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria.

In 2008, the Henry Handel Richardson Society of Australia (HHRSA) was formed to provide ongoing promotion, enjoyment and engagement with her works and life.