Joan Lindsay

GPTKB entity

Properties (45)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(film)
gptkb:Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(miniseries)
gptkbp:artMovement Modernism
Postmodernism
Surrealism
gptkbp:associatedWith Hanging Rock
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Australian_Literature_Society_Gold_Medal
gptkbp:born November 12, 1896
gptkbp:child gptkb:Margaret_Lindsay
gptkb:John_Lindsay
Catherine_Lindsay
gptkbp:died December 23, 1984
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Melbourne
gptkbp:famousQuote “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Life is a dream.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“The past is a foreign country.”
“We are all made of stars.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
“What happened to the girls?”
“Time_is_a_great_teacher,_but_unfortunately_it_kills_all_its_pupils.”
gptkbp:genre Fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Joan Lindsay
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Peter_Weir
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkbp:inspiredBy Victorian era
Indigenous culture
Australian_landscape
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:nationality Australian
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Australian_literature
Feminist literature
Gothic literature
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock
gptkbp:occupation Novelist
gptkbp:period 20th century
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Carlton,_Victoria,_Australia
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Melbourne,_Australia
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Sir_Reginald_Lindsay
gptkbp:theme Mystery
Historical Fiction
Psychological