The Getting of Wisdom

Name: The Getting of Wisdom
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 hr 41 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann

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StarringSusannah FowleHilary RyanTerence Donovan

DirectorBruce Beresford

WriterEleanor Witcombe

NR 1 hr 41 minDrama

Plot

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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