Joan Lindsay
| Full Name: |
Lindsay
Beckett
Lindsay |
| Born: |
November 16, 1896
St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia |
| Died: |
December 23, 1984
Frankston, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: |
Novelist, visual artist, essayist, playwright |
| Nationality: |
Australian |
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Biography
Joan à Beckett Lindsay, also known as Lady Lindsay, was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, Lindsay published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled Through Darkest Pondelayo. Her second novel, Time Without Clocks, was published nearly thirty years later, and was a semi-autobiographical account of the early years of her marriage to artist Daryl Lindsay.
In 1967, Lindsay published her most celebrated work, Picnic at Hanging Rock, a historical Gothic novel detailing the vanishing of three schoolgirls and their teacher at the site of a monolith during one summer. The novel sparked critical and public interest for its ambivalent presentation as a true story as well as its vague conclusion, and is widely considered to be one of the most important Australian novels. It was adapted into a 1975 film of the same name.
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