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Joan Lindsay Joan Lindsay i(A7691 works by) (birth name: Joan a'Beckett Weigall) (a.k.a. Joan a'Beckett Lindsay; Lady Lindsay; Mrs Daryl Lindsay)
Also writes as: Serena Livingstone-Stanley ; Lindsay Ryan ; Rev. Barnaby Whitecorn (DD) ; Joan Weigall ; 'Joan' ; J. L. ; Beckett Lindsay ; J. W. ; Vandyck Browne ; A Victorian ; A Mainland Visitor ; B. Lindsay
Born: Established: 16 Nov 1896 St Kilda East, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 23 Dec 1984 Frankston, Frankston area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1967 Z305085 1967 single work novel historical fiction mystery (taught in 2 units)

'It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin Random House, 2014).

 		Contexts For Australian Literary Studies Griffith University 2011 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1967 Z305085 1967 single work novel historical fiction mystery (taught in 2 units)

'It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin Random House, 2014).

 		Australian Literature and Film King's College London 2011 (Semester 1)
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