Maurice Guest: 'Henry Handel Richardson' (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson)'Henry Handel Richardsons' debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with a 'highly unsuitable' Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer. The novel was deemed too controversial to be published as Richardson intended, and she was forced to cut twenty thousand words from the