
Violet Louisa Ponsonby, 1887; she was born in 1876, as the eldest child of John Henry Ponsonby, an expert on molluscs and 'useful cricketer', who later inherited the lovely manor house at Brympton D'Evercy in Somerset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brympton_d'Evercy

An ideal portrait of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus.


