Joan Lindsay

Joan Lindsay Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 1896 – 23 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and visual artist. She is famous for her 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel) Picnic at Hanging Rock. Quotes Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock, Victoria Hanging Rock — a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling all through breakfast from the Loquat loquat trees outside the dining-room windows and bees murmuring above the pansies bordering the drive. ... The boarders at Mrs Appleby's College for Young Ladies had been up and scanning the bright unclouded sky since six o'clock and were now fluttering about in their holiday muslins like a flock of excited butterflies. Not only was it a Saturday and the long awaited occasion of the annual picnic, but Saint Valentine's Day, traditionally celebrated on the fourteenth of February by the interchange of elaborate cards and favours. Picnic at Hanging Rock Penguin Books 978-0-14-312678-2 2014 pbk https://books.google.com/books/about/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock.html?id=zgrTCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 1 (196 pages; 1st edition 1967) ... it was written as a mystery, and it remains a mystery. ... like dropping a stone into water ... Interview with Joan Lindsay, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock June 14, 2020 The Eldrich Archives YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGDkFNSoFSQ&t=667 (quote at 11:07 of 14:17 in video; interview circa 1973–1974) Quotes about Joan Lindsay There’s a version of Lindsay’s life story that is defined by the men in her life. She was the daughter of a judge and the granddaughter of a state governor. She was married to painter Daryl Lindsay, the director of the National Gallery of Victoria between 1942 and 1956, and later knighted for his services to the arts. Novelist Martin Boyd was her cousin, Frederick McCubbin was her drawing teacher and her friend Robert Menzies launched Picnic at Hanging Rock. Catriona Menzies-Pike, Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall review – a poignant biography of the Picnic at Hanging Rock author 6 February 2025 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/07/joan-lindsay-by-brenda-niall-review-a-poignant-biography-of-the-picnic-at-hanging-rock-author Had Lindsay not written Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel) Picnic at Hanging Rock, she might now be simply described as the enigmatic and charming wife of Daryl Lindsay Sir Daryl – artist and director of the National Gallery of Victoria – hostess of their rural mansion Mulberry Hill (Langwarrin South, Victoria) Mulberry Hill, a minor writer and artist renowned for her skills in hospitality and flower arrangement. Carmel Bird, review of Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall The Saturday Paper March 8, 2025 https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/books/2025/03/31/joan-lindsay External links Category:1896 births Category:1984 deaths Category:Novelists from Australia Category:Painters from Australia Category:Poets from Australia Category:People from Melbourne Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women authors from Australia Category:Playwrights from Australia Category:Essayists from Australia