The Getting of Wisdom
Not Rated
Drama
Starring: Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann
Writer: Eleanor Witcombe
Release Date:
August 25, 1977
August 25, 1977
Ratings:
5.2 / 10
5.2 / 10
Director:
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford
Companies:
Australian Film Commission
Australian Film Commission
Overview
Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.
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