Picnic at Hanging Rock
'Picnic at Hanging Rock fifty years on' by Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Friday, 24 November 2017
Far from being a flimsy, frilly story for women full of antique charm and middle-class manners, Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock is a novel of sharp social observations and nuanced critique; subtle and sometimes latent sensuality; and layered, intricate allegory. The ‘shimmering summer morning warm and still’ brings the opposite to what it promises ...
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