Includes detailed biography and chronology, a useful selected bibliography with extensive annotations (but also a few inaccuracies), an index and the following chapters:
1. Life; 2. Henry Handel Richardson as a Translator; 3. Maurice Guest; 4. The Getting of Wisdom; 5. The Fortunes of Richard Manhony; 6. Henry Handel Richardson as Short Story Writer; 7. The Young Cosima; 8. Conclusions