
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.

Susannah Fowle
Laura Tweedle Rambotham

Hilary Ryan
Evelyn

Terence Donovan
Tom McNamara

Patricia Kennedy
Miss Chapman


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August 25, 1977
1h 41m
5.4
Bruce Beresford
Eleanor Witcombe
17


Australian Film Commission
AU

Sheila Helpmann
Mrs. Gurley

Candy Raymond
Miss Zielinski

Barry Humphries
Rev. Strachey

John Waters
Rev. Shepherd

Kerry Armstrong
Kate

Sigrid Thornton
Maria
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