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“That night the mountain mist came rolling down from the pine forest and lingered far into the morning.”
- Lindsay, 2019, p. 157
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Milner, J. (2017). Sounding 'unstable terrain' in Peter Weir's 'Picnic at hanging rock'. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, 193(193), 84–91.
Sandars, D. (2018, May 3). Why the lost daughters of Picnic at Hanging Rock still haunt us. Pursuit. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-the-lost-daughters-of-picnic-at-hanging-rock-still-haunt-us
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Gibson. S. (2019). The Embrace of Ambiguity in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. DOI: 10.13110/antipodes.33.1.0008
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Beyond the Rock looks at not just the myth of Picnic, but also the story behind it.
Joan Lindsay's powerful short novel has been adroitly adapted by screen playwright Cliff Green into a script.
'Don't worry about us, Mam'selle dear,' smiled Miranda. 'We shall only be gone a very little while.' But they weren't.
Illustrated edition
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Visit National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Picnic at Hanging Rock Collection for information about the 1975 film.
Writer, editor and publisher Sophie Cunningham and series host James Ley discuss this iconic story.
