Age of Consent (novel)

Age of Consent
Cover of the first American edition
AuthorNorman Lindsay
PublishedLondon: T. Werner Laurie Ltd.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938
Sydney: Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., 1962

Age of Consent is a 1938 Australian comic novel written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, in which the central character is a middle-aged painter, based loosely on the author, who travels to a rural township of New South Wales in search of scenic inspiration, but who meets instead a wild adolescent girl who serves as his model and muse.[1][2] Age of Consent is dedicated to Howard Hinton. The book, first published in the United Kingdom and simultaneously in the United States, was briefly banned in Australia.[3] It was adapted for the screen in 1969.

  1. ^ Baxter 2009, p. 4.
  2. ^ Oakley, ed. 1994, pp. v–ix.
  3. ^ Bruce 2017.