TY - BOOK AU - Richardson,Henry Handel TI - The Getting of Wisdom AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Australia -- Fiction KW - Young women -- Fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Getting_of_Wisdom; Release date is 2003-02-01; Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Getting of Wisdom" by Henry Handel Richardson is a novel first published in 1910. Twelve-year-old Laura Rambotham leaves her country home for an elite Melbourne boarding school, where her imaginative nature and humble circumstances clash with the wealthy students' harsh social codes. Through humiliation and isolation, Laura navigates the rigid world of 1890s girls' education, questioning authority, morality, and her own values. Based on Richardson's own boarding school experiences, this Australian classic explores one girl's struggle for authenticity and freedom in an unforgiving environment. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3728 ER -