Who rode away from her bridegroom

[martin50]

Who rode away from her laggardly bridegroom with her true love?

M thinks it is Lorna Doone, but I think she died at the alter in her wedding - long time since I read this

[jno]

not Katherine Ross riding off with Dustin Hoffman at the end of The Graduate? It was a book before it was a film, though I can't remember the character's name.

[noxlumos]

I'd say it was Fair Ellen of Netherby who eloped with Lochinvar leaving her bridegroom standing there like pillach!

See the poem and story here.

http://www.dalbeattie.com/young-lochinvar/young-lochinvar.html

[woofgang]

sigh

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Literature/Question185685.html

[woofgang]

Lorna got shot but didn't die....honestly what do they teach them these days??

[noxlumos]

Woofgang,

I don't palguarise answers, just didn't see the previous question, to set the record straight.

Why do people keep posting the same/similar questions?

[martin50]

Thanks for your answers - I do not know how to contact people to thank them. I guess this will be as good as it gets. Many thanks. Y :-)

[woofgang]

sorry, noxlumos, I was not implying that you had plagiarised, thought I can see why you thought I had, my fault. The sigh was for the multiple posting of a question that anyone my age could have answered from their school english lessons!!

[woofgang]

meant "though" not thought"!!

[martin50]

From my school english lessons huh!! For some of us school was a long time ago - how patronising can you get!!!!!!!!!!

[woofgang]

hello, my school english lessons ended 35 years ago.....

[martin50]

Unfortunately or should I say fortunately mine finished a long time before then!! What I did learn at school and I have remembered all my life is not to be patronising, rude or too much of a clever dick!