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The Getting of Wisdom (1977)

The Getting of Wisdom (1977)

Drama
Release Date: 1977, August 25
Directors: Bruce Beresford
Countries: Australia
Production: Australian Film Commission
Cast: Barry Humphries, John Waters, Kerry Armstrong, Sigrid Thornton, Candy Raymond, Terence Donovan, Hilary Ryan, Susannah Fowle, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann

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.