Picnic at Hanging Rock

In this unexpectedly NSFW episode, we're traveling back to 1900 Australia with Picnic at Hanging Rock! Join us as we learn about the curricula and scandals of girls' schools, the history of tourism at Hanging Rock, bananas, the poet Felicia Hemans, and more! Sources: Poem: Casabianca, available at https://allpoetry.com/poem/8471921-Casabianca-by-Felicia-Dorothea-Hemans Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), TAMU, available at https://odp.library.tamu.edu/victorianpoetry/part/felicia-hemans/ Behrendt, S.C. (2001). 'Certainly not a Female Pen': Felicia Hemans's Early Public Reception. In: Sweet, N., Melnyk, J. (eds) Felicia Hemans. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389564_6 "Alex Grammatikos, Carleton University. "The Nothingness of Fame, At Least to Woman": Felicia Hemans and the Price of . Century Gender Studies. Issue 10.3 (Winter 2014)" "THE HANGING ROCK, NEAR WOODEND." The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (Melbourne, Vic. : 1873 - 1889) 17 February 1877: 182. Web. 28 Aug 2026 . Larissa Romensky, "No Picnic at Hanging Rock: Campaign to Recognize Aboriginal Past Rather than "White Myth". ABC News, available at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-17/campaign-to-recognise-indigenous-history-hanging-rock/8187942 Marjorie Theobald, "Discourse of Danger: Gender and the History of Elementary Schooling in Australia, 1850-1880," Historical Studies in Education, 29-52. Marjorie Theobald, "'Mere Accomplishments'?: Melbourne's Early Ladies' School Reconsidered," Women Who Taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching (1991), 71-91. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442683570.7 Shelley Richardson, "Educating Daughters: The Melbourne Girls," Family Experiments: Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880-1920 (2016), 259-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1crn1.17 Nicholas Surany, "The Australasian Banana Industry: Chinese, Australian, and Pacific Economic Connections," in Chinese Colonial Entanglements: Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950, edited by Julia T. Martinez, Claire Lowrie, and Gregor Benton (University of Hawai'i Press, 2024), https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8441685.7 "Picnic at Hanging Rock," National Film and Sound Archive, https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/picnic Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(film) Vincent Canby, "Picnic at Hanging Rock," https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/40-picnic-at-hanging-rock https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/41-dennis-lehane-s-top-10 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975