A review by rychelereads
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson

3.0

If you like Pride and Prejudiced by Jane Austen, perhaps you'll like this. Imagine all that colonial society has bore upon and into the minds of girls told through the eyes of a flighty dreamer, easily assuaged and pressured into things, with unrealistic expectations as we follow her school days from childhood into young adulthood; now add irony. That's the recipe for this book. It's a quick read (or listen, often for free on various audiobook sites) and it's something to think about.

BTW, "Henry" is definitely more she than he, and I think the fact that the author has a male pen name says much more to the context and content of this book than anything.