Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452: Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852

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THE BETROTHAL. THE CONTINENTAL 'BRADSHAW' IN 1852. A SEARCH FOR ROBIN HOOD. SNOW-STORM IN THE SAHARA. THINGS TALKED OF IN LONDON. THE SHIP'S FIRST VOYAGE. THE HARE AND THE LION: AN INDIAN POLITICAL LIBEL. Frances Seymour had been left an orphan and an heiress very early in life. Her mother had died in giving birth to a second child, which did not survive its parent, so that Frances had neither brother nor sister; and her father, an officer of rank and merit, was killed at Waterloo.