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'If Joan Lindsay is known to contemporary readers, it is as the author of the classic Australian novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, which was published in 1967 and made into a feature film directed by Peter Weir in 1975. What is surprising about Brenda Niall’s engrossing biography of Lindsay is how little of it is devoted to Picnic at Hanging Rock, which was published when its author was 71 years old.' (Introduction)
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Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall Review – A Poignant Biography of the Picnic at Hanging Rock Author
The Guardian Australia
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- Joan Lindsay : The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock 2025 single work biography
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