October 2022
“A Place of Special Value”: Literary & Artistic Travels in Victoria – October 2022 18 OCT – 29 OCT 2022 Code: 22266AU Tour Leaders Susannah Fullerton, OAM, FRSN, Shane Carmody Physical Ratings Learn about Victorian writers, past and present, familiar and unfamiliar, from literary expert Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, and historian Shane Carmody. Overview Victoria has a long and proud literary history. In 2008, Melbourne became only the second city in the world, after Edinburgh, to receive designation as a City of Literature within UNESCO's Creative Cities Network. Learn about Victorian writers, past and present, familiar and unfamiliar, from literary expert Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia. Susannah will be assisted by Shane Carmody, a historian with a great love of libraries and archives. Visit Mulberry Hill, the home of Lady Joan Lindsay and Daryl Lindsay, and enjoy a picnic afternoon tea at Hanging Rock. Explore Victoria’s great art collections at the Castlemaine Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Geelong Gallery, Heide and the The Ian Potter Centre (NGV). Take a literary walking tour of Maldon in the footsteps of Henry Handel Richardson, and learn about her connections with Queenscliff from Dorothy Johnston, author of Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune. Meet 2015 Miles Franklin Award author Sofie Laguna and discuss her new novel Infinite Splendours set in the foothills of Southern Grampians. Enjoy poetry by Adam Lindsay Gordon; view his cottage in Ballarat and his commemorative statue in Melbourne. Tour the rugged Shipwreck Coast of Victoria (Great Ocean Road) which featured in Mad Max (1979) and the TV series, Round the Twist.
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