Picnic At Hanging Rock (Vintage Lindsay)

List of Characters

MRS APPLEYARD, Headmistress of Appleyard College

MISS GRETA MCCRAW, Mathematics mistress

MLLE DIANNE DE POITIERS, French and Dancing mistress

MISS DORA LUMLEY, MISS BUCK, junior mistresses

MIRANDA, IRMA LEOPOLD, MARION QUADE, senior boarders

EDITH HORTON, the College dunce

SARA WAYBOURNE, the youngest boarder

ROSAMUND, BLANCHE, and other boarders

COOK, MINNIE AND ALICE, domestic staff at the College

EDWARD WHITEHEAD, the College gardener

IRISH TOM, handyman at the College

MR BEN HUSSEY, of Hussey’s Livery Stables, Woodend

DOCTOR MCKENZIE, a family doctor from Woodend

CONSTABLE BUMPHER, of the Woodend Police Station

MRS BUMPHER

JIM, a young policeman

M. LOUIS MONTPELIER, a Bendigo watchmaker

REG LUMLEY, brother of DORA LUMLEY

JASPER COSGROVE, guardian of SARA WAYBOURNE

COLONEL AND MRS FITZHUBERT, summer residents at Lake View, Upper Macedon

THE HON. MICHAEL FITZHUBERT, their nephew from England

ALBERT CRUNDALL, coachman at Lake View

MR CUTLER, gardener at Lake View

MRS CUTLER

MAJOR SPRACK AND HIS DAUGHTER, ANGELA, English visitors at Government Cottage, Macedon

DOCTOR COOLING, from Lower Macedon

And many others who do not appear in this book.

Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves. As the fateful picnic took place in the year nineteen hundred, and all the characters who appear in this book are long since dead, it hardly seems important.