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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 historical fiction novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay. [1] Set in Victoria, Australia in 1900, is about a group of female boarding school students who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community.
- Joan Lindsay, Tom Wright
- 1967
May 8, 2018 · In a private boarding school in Victoria in 1900, the girls from the school plan a picnic for St Valentine’s Day. After lounging about and eating lunch, four of the girls—Miranda, Edith, Irma and Marion—go to explore and climb the Hanging Rock with their teacher, Ms McCraw.
Mar 30, 2017 · On the 50th anniversary of artist and novelist Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Janelle McCulloch tells the story of its author, its genesis and the remarkable film that followed. Janelle ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Joan Lindsay (November 16, 1896 – December 23, 1984) was an Australian author, essayist, and visual artist, best known for her mystic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock. She began her literary career at forty years old when Through Darkest Pondelayo (1936) was published. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1966) was published when she was seventy-one. Early Life
Hanging Rock is a natural volcanic rock formation in Australia near Melbourne. As the story starts, a group of young girls, boarders at Mrs. Appleyard's College for Young Ladies, is excitedly starting for their annual picnic near it, on February 14, St. Valentine's Day.
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Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock has captivated and perplexed generations. But the woman behind the novel is as much an enigma as the disappearance of the fictitious schoolgirls and their teacher.Joan Lindsay, wife of painter, art entrepreneur and National Gallery of Victoria director Daryl.
May 24, 2019 · The idea of Picnic at Hanging Rock was born from a dream author Joan Lindsay had in 1966. Lindsay knew Hanging Rock well due to spending summer picnics there during childhood holidays. After waking from her dream, Lindsay wrote the book in only two weeks at her home in Victoria’s Mulberry Hill.
