J. G. Robertson

Ethel Richardson (who later wrote as HHR ) got married at Clontarf near Dublin (her father's birthplace) to the Scotsman J. G. Robertson , a recent graduate student and aspiring academic.

J. G. Robertson , husband of HHR , died the day following surgery; he had first fallen seriously ill two years before this.

A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson , who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she...

She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...

HHR 's husband recalled twenty years later how, although average consumers of circulating-library fiction may have been horrified, to young people interested in literary movements this book was a revelation: not merely a new kind...

Early reviews mixed horror (a libel on girlhood, the result of a curious mania for telling the literal truth regardless of the ordinary canons as to what is and what is not fitting for...

Harold Hannyngton Child in the Times Literary Supplement supposed that the author was a man. He proffered the paradox that the novel was never for a moment exciting although it was continuously interesting. He...

The Times Literary Supplement, still referring courteously to the author as Mr Richardson, paid tribute to histrue creative imagination.J. G. Robertson gave it as his unequivocal opinion that this is...

It is generally supposed that HHR 's last novel, The Young Cosima (about the woman who married composer Richard Wagner ) was weakened by the author's loss of her husband in 1933.

Ethel Robertson (who later wrote as HHR ) moved from Strasbourg to London when her husband was appointed professor of German at London University .

HHR (now a published novelist) moved with her husband from Harrow in Middlesex to central London, to a house at 90 Regent's Park Road.

HHR 's first scholarly biographer judges that this book's prime value is as a psychological document in which fantasies eclipse, or compulsions elide, verifiable actuality. It is, he says, as revelatory for what it...

HHR set sail with her husband , sister , and brother-in-law (who dropped out of the trip early) for a visit back from England to Australia. Part of her object was research for her Australian historical trilogy.