Beyond the rock : the life of Joan Lindsay and the mystery of picnic at Hanging Rock

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TitleBeyond the rock : the life of Joan Lindsay and the mystery of picnic at Hanging Rock Personal AuthorMcCulloch, Janelle, authorDescriptionIn the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladiesâ€™ college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that has endured for half a century. Beyond the Rock looks at not just the myth of Picnic and how it has become part of Australiaâ€™s culture, but also the story behind it. It examines Joan Lindsayâ€™s enigmatic life, much of which she kept secret from the world, including her childhood, her complex marriage to Daryl Lindsay of the famous Lindsay family of artists, their enduring love and unconventional bohemian life, and her life at Mulberry Hill, the Lindsaysâ€™ own Arcadia deep in the Victorian countryside.Physical characteristics205 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 26 cm.LanguageEnglishAccess restrictionsFor use in library only - available to be viewed at Frankston Library (60 Playne Street Frankston VIC 3199)Dewey NumberLH A823.3 MACC

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Subject (Keyword)Lindsay, Joan, 1896-1984; Lindsay, Joan, 1896-1984. Picnic at Hanging Rock; Women authors, Australian 20th century Biography; Australia Social life and customs 20th century; Biographies

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