Joan Lindsay
Joan Lindsay was born in
1896 as Joan a'Beckett Weigall in East St. Kilda,
Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Sir Theyre and A.S.H. Weigall. From
1916 to
1920 she studied
painting at the National Gallery School,
Melbourne. In
1921 she first exhibited with the
Victorian Artists Society.
In 1922 Joan Weigall married Daryl Lindsay, in London, England.
Her Books
- Through Darkest Ponelayo, 1936
- Time Without Clocks, 1962
- Facts Soft and Hard, 1964
- Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1967 (released as a film in 1975)
- Syd Sixpence, 1983 (children's book)
Lady Lindsay died in
1984 in Melbourne.
See Australian culture