"Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to — a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with s shrilling all through breakfast from the outside the dining-room windows and bees murmuring above the pansies bordering the drive. ... The boarders at Mrs Appleby's College for Young Ladies had been up and scanning the bright unclouded sky since six o'clock and were now fluttering about in their holiday s like a flock of excited butterflies. Not only was it a Saturday and the long awaited occasion of the annual picnic, but Saint Valentine's Day, traditionally celebrated on the fourteenth of February by the interchange of elaborate cards and favours."
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Women born in the 19th centuryPeople from MelbourneNovelists from AustraliaPoets from AustraliaPainters from Australia
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(196 pages; 1st edition 1967)
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Joan Lindsay
(16 November 1896 – 23 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and visual artist. She is famous for her 1967 novel '.
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