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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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1 Buttoned Gloves Joan Lindsay , 1997 extract (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
— Appears in: The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays 1997; (p. 92-94)
1 Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay , 1988 extract novel (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
— Appears in: Australia Antologio 1988; (p. 184-190)
1 Through Darkest Pondelayo (from Through Darkest Pondelayo : An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island) Serena Livingstone-Stanley , 1988 extract satire (Through Darkest Pondelayo : An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island)
— Appears in: The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour 1988; (p. 139-146)
1 1 Chapter Eighteen Joan Lindsay , 1987 extract novel historical fiction mystery (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
— Appears in: The Secret of Hanging Rock : Joan Lindsay's Final Chapter 1987; (p. [21]-33)
1 Joan Lindsay Joan Lindsay , 1987 extract autobiography (Time Without Clocks)
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of Australian Autobiography 1987; (p. 81-85)
1 5 y separately published work icon The Secret of Hanging Rock : Joan Lindsay's Final Chapter Joan Lindsay , John Taylor , Yvonne Rousseau , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1987 Z28684 1987 selected work extract criticism essay historical fiction mystery The final chapter of Picnic at Hanging Rock was removed at the request of the first publishers of the book. The missing chapter reveals what actually happened to the schoolgirls who vanished from the Rock after a St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900.
1 Student Days Joan Lindsay , 1985 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 59-63)
2 1 y separately published work icon Syd Sixpence Joan Lindsay , Ringwood : Kestrel , 1982 Z865006 1982 single work children's fiction children's fantasy
1 Good with Cats Joan Lindsay , 1980 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 July vol. 101 no. 5221 1980; (p. 73-75)
1 The Baxter Schoolchildren Joan Lindsay , 1968 extract autobiography (Time Without Clocks)
— Appears in: Australian Kaleidoscope 1968; (p. 127-131)
9 72 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).
1 Social Swaggie Joan Lindsay , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July vol. 5 no. 9 1966; (p. 174)
— Review of Humping My Bluey Graham McInnes , 1966 single work autobiography
1 Untitled Joan Lindsay , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July vol. 4 no. 9 1965; (p. 160)
— Review of Annabella Boswell's Journal : Australian Reminiscences Illustrated with Her Own Watercolours and Contemporary Drawings and Sketches 1965 single work autobiography
1 An Evening with Angela Joan Lindsay , 1965 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July vol. 4 no. 9 1965; (p. 162) Joan Lindsay remembers visiting the author Angela Thirkell at the latter's home in Malvern, Victoria, and meeting her again a few years later at Professor Orme Masson's house at Melbourne University. Lindsay dates her first meeting with Thirkell as during World War I but it was probably in the early 1920s.
1 y separately published work icon Facts Soft and Hard Joan Lindsay , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1964 Z569366 1964 single work autobiography travel 'When the Carnegie Corporation of New York invited the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria to visit the United States and take a professional look at the great American collections, their invitation included the Director's wife...' (Author's Note).
1 2 y separately published work icon Time Without Clocks Joan Lindsay , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1962 Z305491 1962 single work autobiography

'Time Without Clocks is Joan Lindsay’s charming and evocative autobiographical novel. It tells the story of her marriage to Sir Daryl Lindsay, of their life in Melbourne in the twenties and thirties, of their travels in Europe, and above all the gentle world of ‘Mulberry Hill’, a house without clocks.

'Revealed in this delightful reminiscence is Joan Lindsay’s fascination with the ambiguities of time, seen by some as the key to the mysteries of Picnic at Hanging Rock.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2020 Text ed.).
1 y separately published work icon A Company of Carols Marnie Bassett , Maie Casey , Rosemary Dobson , Joan Lindsay , Margaret Sutherland (composer), s.l. : s.n. , 1960-1967 Z819175 1960-1967 selected work lyric/song
1 Cataract Joan Lindsay , 1937 single work drama
1 3 y separately published work icon Through Darkest Pondelayo : An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island Serena Livingstone-Stanley , London : Chatto and Windus , 1936 Z797324 1936 single work novel humour satire
1 Some Nasty People i "The milliner with large blue eyes who lied", Beckett Lindsay , 1930 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Home , 1 September vol. 11 no. 9 1930; (p. 30)
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