Koroit in the footsteps of HHR
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Koroit - now a charming small town in south western Victoria - was once HHR's home for one very significant year from 1878-9. After the physical and mental decline of her father, her mother took her first position as Postmistress in Koroit. Her father came home to the Post Office and died there in 1879. He is buried in the cemetery on the outskirts of the town. HHR later transformed this traumatic experience into fictiion in the trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. She also wrote about Koroit in her memoir, Myself When Young.
To Access this Tour:
Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/henry-handel-richardson-tours/id1504566412?mt=8
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mytoursapp.android.app2041
Brigid Magner is an HHR Society Committee member, author of Locating Australian Literary Memory and a Senior Lecturer In Literary Studies in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
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