Far from the Madding Crowd (2015 film) wrong church, and that she is pregnant. He promises he will find a home for them, but sends her to the workhouse in the meantime. Frank, a degenerate gambler, asks Bathsheba for £20 and she refuses, saying the money is for farm expenses. Fanny and her baby die in childbirth; their coffin is delivered to Bathsheba's farm her last known address. The words "Fanny Robin and child" are on the coffin, but Gabriel surreptitiously erases "and child" from the slate while bringing it in. Bathsheba recognizes her name as one of her uncle's loyal servants. Bathsheba also reads the erasure,
The Frogs Who Desired a King of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, using the pen-name S. Stepniak. The book contrasts the policy of the reactionary Tsar Alexander III with the likely policy under Nicholas II, who had only just succeeded to the throne. There is a passing reference to the fable in the title of Alyse Gregory's feminist novel "King Log and Lady Lea" (1929), whereas one of Margaret Atwood's four short fictions in a 2005 issue of the magazine "Daedalus" engages with it directly. Entitled "King Log in Exile", it features the deposed king