![]() ![]() ![]() Language English Access restrictionsFor use in library only - available to be viewed at Frankston Library (60 Playne Street Frankston VIC 3199) Dewey NumberLH A823. She grew up in Melbourne and in 1922 married the artist Sir Daryl Lindsay. Physical characteristics205 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimiles 26 cm. Joan Lindsay was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. It examines Joan Lindsay’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 Lindsays’ own Arcadia deep in the Victorian countryside. Beyond the Rock looks at not just the myth of Picnic and how it has become part of Australia’s culture, but also the story behind it. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that has endured for half a century. TitleBeyond the rock : the life of Joan Lindsay and the mystery of picnic at Hanging Rock Personal AuthorMcCulloch, Janelle, author DescriptionIn 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 ladies’ college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. ![]()
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