Mildred Hubble
Mildred Hubble is a major character in "The Worst Witch" children's book series by Jill Murphy. She is the protagonist in all the books. She is friends with Maud Spellbody and Enid Nightshade and has a strong rivalry with Ethel Hallow and Drusilla Paddock.
Lois the Witch
The 1861 book's five stories are "Lois the Witch" (124 pages), "The Grey Woman" (78 pages), "The Doom of the Griffiths" (52 pages), "The Half-Brothers" (20 pages), and "The Crooked Branch" (63 pages). "Lois the Witch" is a long short story or novella of historical fiction, which first appeared in 3 parts in October 1859 in the weekly "All the Year Round" edited by Charles Dickens. The story's protagonist Lois Barclay is raised in a parsonage in Barford, Warwickshire but as she becomes a young woman both her parents die. In 1691 she crosses the Atlantic to live with her uncle and his family in Salem, Massachusetts and then becomes involved in the Salem witch trials. The book's second-longest story "The Grey Woman" is a Gothic tale of a young woman who, with her lady's maid, escapes from the castle of her rich, but abusive, husband Monsieur de la Tourelle. The stories "The Doom of the Griffiths" and "The Half-Brothers" were published in the 1859 collection "Round the Sofa" after previous publication in periodicals. "The Crooked Branch" was first published as "The Ghost in the Garden Room" in the 1859 extra Christmas issue of "All the Year Round" as part of the "portmanteau" story "The Haunted House".