![]() Courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne These stories gave rise to the rich mythology of lost children in Australian literature, bush poetry and art, perhaps best illuminated by Frederick McCubbin’s Lost, 1886. Sixteen schoolgirls, caught by a rising tide following a picnic near Launceston in 1899, were saved, but countless other accounts, such as the disappearance of Lewis Vieusseux during a family picnic in 1858, involved tragic loss. ![]() Lindsay lends credence to the tale by concluding her work with an ‘extract from a Melbourne newspaper, dated February 14th, 1913’, which explores the mystery in detail. This report proves elusive searching digitised Australian newspapers on Trove, but there are other examples. The drama centres around the mysterious disappearance of a quartet of schoolgirls, who vanish at the Rock after a picnic on Valentine’s Day 1900. ![]() Hanging Rock is famous as an ominous yet enticing character in Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock. ‘Everyone agreed the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock…’ ![]()
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