Step inside a home that inspired one of Australia’s most celebrated novels📖 Built in 1870, Lake View House was once home to Ethel Florence Richardson, better known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson. It was here in Chiltern that her early life inspired the fictional town of Barambogie in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, now regarded as a masterpiece of Australian literature. Furnished in period style, the red-brick lakeside villa reflects life in a prosperous gold-era town and includes pers

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