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The math teacher and a governess at Appleyard College. The thin, angular, astute, and logical Miss McCraw is well-enough liked by her students, though her eccentric, highly analytical nature is occasionally off-putting to the girls. Miss McCraw disappears during the picnic at Hanging Rock, having been last seen walking up the mount in only her underwear by the terrified Edith—who was herself at the time running down the mountain from a sinister but unseen force. Miss McCraw’s body is never found, and the strange, perhaps supernatural forces which propelled her up the mountain are never revealed. All of the students and teachers at Appleyard seem in agreement that the thoughtful, careful Miss McCraw would never have abandoned her charges at the picnic grounds and headed up the dangerous mountain of her own volition—which makes her actions on the day of the picnic all the more disorienting and terrifying.
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Miss Greta McCraw Character Timeline in Picnic at Hanging Rock
The timeline below shows where the character Miss Greta McCraw appears in Picnic at Hanging Rock. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...governesses, Miss Lumley, has received a card from her brother Reg, while their math teacher, Miss McCraw , has received a plain valentine covered in math equations from the groom Tom, who...
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...in the box up front. The rest of the girls pile into the back with Miss McCraw and Mademoiselle.
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...hotter and the road grows bumpier. The girls beg to take their gloves off, and Miss McCraw tells them they can—but when they ask to remove their hats, she forbids it. After...
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Chapter 4
...has happened. Mademoiselle responds that she doesn’t know where to start. Mrs. Appleyard asks where Miss McCraw is, and Mademoiselle answers that she’s been left behind at the rock. Mrs. Appleyard demands...
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...the following morning. He describes realizing, early on in the afternoon, that both his and Miss McCraw ’s watches had stopped. The group decided to leave in an hour, and Hussey got...
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...made fires as it got darker out, continuing to call for the missing girls and Miss McCraw . After several hours, though, Hussey and Mademoiselle—noting that the girls were growing more and...
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Chapter 5
...are always getting lost in the woods and the bush, and that the girls and Miss McCraw will soon be found. Mrs. Appleyard says that Miranda—the school’s head girl—was “born and bred...
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...remember seeing something strange—a “nasty red” cloud which appeared to her shortly after she passed Miss McCraw on her way down the mountain. The investigators are shocked by this information—Edith hasn’t mentioned...
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...away in New Zealand. Mrs. Appleyard writes a perfunctory letter to the elderly father of Miss McCraw , then stamps them and brings them downstairs to the hall table for Tom to...
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Chapter 12
...and tries to extricate Irma from the mob. Edith shouts that Miranda and Marion and Miss McCraw are dead and rotting in a cave on Hanging Rock. On the edge of the...
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Chapter 17
...hunters uncovered the only clue ever found—a scrap of fabric thought to be part of Miss McCraw ’s petticoat. The article also states that Edith Horton—a girl who accompanied the missing students...
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