On This Day: Picnic at Hanging Rock

This article can be found here.

Some main points of the article include:

1. The New York Times called the movie 'spooky and sexy.' They added 'The inocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combined to produce a euphoria so intesnse it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death.'

2. The story has themes common to Australian literature.

3. The final chapter of the book was left out by the publisher. It was released after her death in 1964.

4. It says the girls either disappeared into some natural oddity or they went through a time warp.

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