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Miss Greta McCraw
The class dunce at Appleyard College. The portly, unpopular Edith receives vicious treatment from her classmates and is often the subject of their ire and ridicule. When Edith tags along on the senior girls’ excursion up Hanging Rock, desperate to fit in with them, she gets more than she bargained for: after watching her classmates become seemingly hypnotized by an unseen force, Edith encounters a nasty red cloud circling overhead and, driven by terror, runs screaming down the mountain. Mrs. Appleyard, Constable Bumpher, Doctor McKenzie and others hope that Edith will at least prove useful in the investigation of what happened to her fellow classmates—but Edith’s memory is nearly a blank slate. She is unable to recall very little of what happened to her after the picnic—though she does provide a valuable clue when she suddenly remembers seeing Miss McCraw in only her underwear climbing up the mount.
Edith Horton Quotes in Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Picnic at Hanging Rock quotes below are all either spoken by Edith Horton or refer to Edith Horton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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If Albert was right and they were only schoolgirls about the same age as his sisters in England, how was it they were allowed to set out alone, at the end of a summer afternoon? He reminded himself that he was in Australia now: Australia, where anything might happen. In England everything had been done before: quite often by one’s own ancestors, over and over again. He sat down on a fallen log, heard Albert calling him through the trees, and knew that this was the country where he, Michael Fitzhubert, was going to live.
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“I feel perfectly awful! When are we going home?” Miranda was looking at her so strangely, almost as if she wasn’t seeing her. When Edith repeated the question more loudly, she simply turned her back and began walking away up the rise, the other two following a little way behind. Well, hardly walking —sliding over the stones on their bare feet as if they were on a drawing-room carpet… […] “Come back, all of you! Don’t go up there – come back!” She felt herself choking and tore at her frilled lace collar. […] To her horror all three girls were fast moving out of sight behind the monolith.
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Edith Horton Quotes in Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Picnic at Hanging Rock quotes below are all either spoken by Edith Horton or refer to Edith Horton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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If Albert was right and they were only schoolgirls about the same age as his sisters in England, how was it they were allowed to set out alone, at the end of a summer afternoon? He reminded himself that he was in Australia now: Australia, where anything might happen. In England everything had been done before: quite often by one’s own ancestors, over and over again. He sat down on a fallen log, heard Albert calling him through the trees, and knew that this was the country where he, Michael Fitzhubert, was going to live.
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Chapter 3
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“I feel perfectly awful! When are we going home?” Miranda was looking at her so strangely, almost as if she wasn’t seeing her. When Edith repeated the question more loudly, she simply turned her back and began walking away up the rise, the other two following a little way behind. Well, hardly walking —sliding over the stones on their bare feet as if they were on a drawing-room carpet… […] “Come back, all of you! Don’t go up there – come back!” She felt herself choking and tore at her frilled lace collar. […] To her horror all three girls were fast moving out of sight behind the monolith.
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