MULBERRY HILL

Component identifier:

Subseries 13

Content Summary:

The Lindsays lived at Mulberry Hill at Baxter on the Mornington Peninsula from the late 1920s and it was there in 1961 that Joan Lindsay wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock. On her death in 1984, ownership of the house passed to the National Trust.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In February 1995 the National Library of Australia purchased papers of Cathy Peake comprising notes, letters and other information assembled when she was writing a biography of the Australian author and artist Joan Lindsay in the late 1980s.

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