swanhope

Updated: May 10, 2025

"I tell you what, madam," said the general, hotly, "your family had among 'em the handsomest women in the west of England; and the handsomest men, too, by Gad! Do you remember Jane Swanhope the Fair Maid of Somerset they used to call her that married the fellow living down Yeovil way who broke his neck in a steeplechase?" "Do I remember her?" said the old lady.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875