Volume 4 No. 3 — 1 May 1970

‘Richard Mahony’s Tragedy’

I. M. Foster

Foster provides a letter from Henry Handel Richardson which discusses the trilogy's representation of landscape.

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Published 1 May 1970 in Volume 4 No. 3. Subjects: Henry Handel Richardson .

Cite as: Foster, I. M.. ‘‘Richard Mahony’s Tragedy’.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1970, doi: 10.20314/als.6fb6e260a3.

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