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Joan Lindsay was an artist and writer. Born Joan à Beckett Weigall in St Kilda, Melbourne, Joan married Daryl Lindsay in 1922. She was the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967).

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‘Lady Joan Lindsay.’ In The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, edited by William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews, 467. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994.

O’Neill, Terence. Lindsay, Joan à Beckett (1896-1984), Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Published in hard copy 2012, accessed online 10 July 2013.