Film
The Getting of Wisdom
Australia- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Year
- 1977
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Written by
Eleanor Witcombe
Produced by
Phillip Adams
