Henry Handel Richardson, pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, Australian novelist whose trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, combining description of an Australian immigrant's life and work in the goldfields with a powerful character study, is considered the crowning achievement of modern Australian fiction to that time.
D'Arcy's work is characterised by a psychologically realist style often attracting comparisons with Henry James and her determination to engage with themes such as marriage, the family, deception and imitation.
Sherwood Anderson in his public introduction to Stein's 1922 publication of Geography and Plays wrote: "e;For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entirely new recasting of life, in the city of words.
