Together with an Essay on The Art of Henry Handel Richardson by J. G. Robertson.
One of Australia's greatest and most distinguished writers has left us the fascinating story of her own childhood. Here, with all the clarity and sensitivity of her novels, is Mahony himself, and also Mary; Laura is evident in the descriptions of school in Melbourne; and in Leipzig we see the background of love and emotion from which Henry Handel Richardson created Maurice Guest.
Cut short at the point of Handel Richardson's marriage to J. G. Robertson, 'Myself When Young' is carried on to 1903 by her devoted friend, Olga Roncoroni, with help of Professor Robertson's diaries and notes.
