What year did the picnic at hanging rock happen?
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay. Picnic at Hanging Rock is about a trip by a party of girls from an exclusive private school, who travel to Hanging Rock in Victoria’s Mount Macedon area for a picnic on St. Valentine’s Day, 1900. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl is ever seen again; no reason for their disappearance is ever given, and the one girl who returned had apparently fallen and hit her head, according to a doctor who examined her, and has no memory of what had happened to the others. The novel is written in the form of a false document, implying that it is based on a true story and even begins and ends with a pseudo-historical prologue and epilogue, adding to the overall mystery-feel. However, while Hanging Rock is a real geological feature near Mt Macedon, the story is entirely fictional.
