The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindsay Richardson)

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The Getting of Wisdom, Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindsay Richardson), 1910, Australia (Australia/England), NOVEL

"...Wearing a dress she is sure is too short and a hat her mother lined with embarrassingly vivid red velvet, and carrying only one small suitcase of clothing, Laura finds her self-confidence diminishing with every mile of her train ride. Within a week of her arrival at school she knows "You might regulate your outward habit to the last button of what you were expected to wear; you might conceal the tiny flaws and shuffle over the big improprieties in your home life...yet of what use were all your pains, if you could not marshal your thoughts and feelings—the very realest part of you—in rank and file as well?"..."

(J.L., p. 45)

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