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Author:
Thomas Hardy
Biography Title:
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Page No.:
124
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
The Macmillan Press Ltd
First Published:
n/a
Person:
Alexander Macmillan; Thomas and Jane Carlyle
Clothing:
Cloak;
Colours:
Red
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
[IX, 1878, June 16] Emma and Hardy went to dinner at Alexander Macmillan's where he told them a story that "the late Mrs Carlyle told him. One day when she was standing alone on Craigenputtock Moor ... she discerned in the distance a red spot. It proved to be the red cloak of a woman who passed for a witch in those parts."
Notes:
Hardy was interested in the supernatural with relation to folklore, and weaves it into some of his stories: for example, The Woodlanders and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.