The Getting of Wisdom

Name: The Getting of Wisdom
Director: Bruce Beresford
Genre: Drama
Released: 1977-08-25
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann

Directed by Bruce Beresford

Drama

19771h 41m5.2

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.