琼·林赛

琼·阿贝克特·韦加尔·林赛爵士夫人（Lady Joan à Beckett Weigall Lindsay，1896年11月16日－1984年12月23日） 是澳大利亚的女性小说家、剧作家、散文家和视觉艺术家。

林赛年轻时接受过绘画训练，1936年，40岁的林赛以笔名Serena Livingstone-Stanley出版了第一部文学作品——讽刺小说《穿越最黑暗的彭德莱奥》（Through Darkest Pondelayo）。近三十年后，她出版了第二部小说《没有钟表的时光》（Time Without Clocks），是一部记录其与艺术家丈夫达里尔·林赛爵士婚姻早年生活的半自传小说。

1967年，林赛出版了其最著名的作品《悬岩野餐》（Picnic at Hanging Rock），这是一部历史题材的哥特式小说，讲述了1900年三名女学生与一名女教师在维多利亚州一个巨石附近神秘失踪的故事。小说因真假莫辨的叙事和开放式结局而引起广泛关注，被认为是澳大利亚文学史上最重要的小说之一。1975年，该小说被改编为同名电影。

此外，林赛还创作了多部未出版的剧本，并在其创作生涯中为多种杂志和出版物撰写散文、短篇小说和诗歌。1976年丈夫去世后，林赛活跃于墨尔本本地艺术界，参与了多次艺术展览。1982年，她出版了最后一部作品，也是唯一一部儿童文学作品《六便士悉德》（Syd Sixpence）。

林赛于1984年因胃癌逝世。其故居随后被捐赠给澳大利亚国家信托组织，目前作为博物馆对外开放，陈列着林赛夫妇的艺术作品及个人遗物。

Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 1896 – 23 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled Through Darkest Pondelayo. Her second novel, Time Without Clocks, was published nearly thirty years later, and was a semi-autobiographical account of the early years of her marriage to artist Sir Daryl Lindsay.

In 1967, Lindsay published her most celebrated work, Picnic at Hanging Rock, a historical Gothic novel detailing the vanishing of three schoolgirls and their teacher at the site of a monolith during one summer. The novel sparked critical and public interest for its ambivalent presentation as a true story as well as its vague conclusion, and is widely considered to be one of the most important Australian novels. It was adapted into a 1975 film of the same name.

She was also the author of several unpublished plays, and contributed essays, short stories, and poetry to numerous journals and publications throughout her career. After the death of Lindsay's husband in 1976, she spent her time involved in the local art community in Melbourne, and was involved in several exhibitions. Her last published work, Syd Sixpence (1982), was her first and only work of children's literature. Lindsay died of stomach cancer in 1984, after which her home was donated to the Australian National Trust; the Lindsay estate now operates as a museum with her and her husband Daryl's artwork and personal effects.

Life and career

Early life

Joan à Beckett Weigall was born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, the third daughter of Theyre à Beckett Weigall, a prominent judge. His cousin, William Arthur Callendar à Beckett, was father to Emma Minnie Boyd and thus Lindsay was related to the Boyd family including writer Martin Boyd. Her mother, Ann Sophie Weigall (née Hamilton), was the daughter of the Scottish born Sir Robert Hamilton, a Governor of Tasmania; she was a musician born and raised in Dublin. Lindsay had two sisters, Mim and Nancy, and a brother, Theyre Jr. Lindsay spent her early years in a mansion called "St Margaret's", at 151 Alma Road, East St Kilda. She described her childhood as "outwardly happy and uneventful."

In 1909 at the age of thirteen, Lindsay was sent to a local boarding school, then called Carhue, to complete her education. During Lindsay's time there the school went through a change in ownership and was renamed the Clyde Girls' Grammar School; she was a model student. The school was relocated to near Mount Macedon, five years after Joan's final year. After graduating from Clyde, Lindsay considered becoming an architect, but decided to study art instead, enrolling at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne in 1916. There, while studying painting, she was educated by Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin.

In 1920 she began sharing a Melbourne studio with Maie Ryan (later Lady Casey). Joan exhibited her watercolours and oils at two Melbourne exhibitions in 1920, one of which was titled "The Neo-Pantechnicists" and exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society. She and Casey also collaborated on an unfinished book together, titled Portrait of Anna.

Marriage to Daryl Lindsay; early works

While studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, she met fellow art student Daryl Lindsay. The two married in Marylebone, London, England on St. Valentine's Day 1922. The day was always a special occasion for her, and she set her most famous work, Picnic at Hanging Rock, on St. Valentine's Day.