The Getting of Wisdom
Laura Rambotham, a country girl at a Melbourne boarding school, learns some hard lessons about fitting in.
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About 72,296 words · roughly 5.1 hours of reading (medium) · 15 sections online · In: Early women writers
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- In Australia
Henry Handel Richardson (author) died in 1946. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1996. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.
- In the United States
First published in 1910. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.
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rights.json, checked 2026-10-19. Death dates: Henry Handel Richardson (Wikidata, catalogue). First publication: reference.
