Book description
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.
Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just
right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of
the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on
through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher,
till at last they disappeared.
They never returned.
Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader
must decide for themselves.
Joan Lindsay was born in Melbourne, where she went to school as a
day-girl for a few years at Clyde Girls Grammar, then situated in East
St Kilda. Appleyard College, the setting oh her most famous novel
Picnic at Hanging Rock
, was to some extent based on Clyde Girls' Grammar School. From 1916 to
1919, Joan studied painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art
School, Melbourne and exhibited numerous of her watercolor and oil
paintings. On Valentine's Day 1922 she married Daryl Lindsay in London.
When her husband was knighted in 1956 and Joan became Lady Lindsay. The
Lindsays travelled together in Europe and the USA, Daryl with his paints
and Joan with her typewriter. She contributed articles, reviews and
stories to various magazines and newspapers on art. She died in December
1984.
