Literary Cousins: Nuns in Jeopardy and Picnic at Hanging Rock
Abstract
Discusses the connection between Martin Boyd's Nuns in Jeopardy and his cousin Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, particularly in terms of Lindsay's suggestions to Boyd, & the novels' shared use of the macabre.
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Published 1 May 1982 in Volume 10 No. 3. Subjects: Martin Boyd, Joan Lindsay.
Cite as: O'Neill, Terence. ‘Literary Cousins: Nuns in Jeopardy and Picnic at Hanging Rock.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, 1982, doi: 10.20314/als.93c20b8933.