# Joan — The Splendid Spur character guide

> Joan in The Splendid Spur by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Joan of Arc, she, her

**First appearance:** 0001-the-splendid-spur

## Snapshot

A grey-tor girl with firm red lips and a soldier's hands, Joan hauls wounded men off battlefields and calls no one master but her own conscience.

## Who they are

Joan of the Tor moves between the Cornish hills and the edges of the war, mending wounds, hiding fugitives, and speaking in a blunt country tongue that hides a fierce competence. She saves Jack's life with sackcloth and steady arms, then refuses to be thanked or ordered about. Her loyalty is real but unsentimental, and her presence quietly reshapes what Jack thinks courage looks like.

## In the story

### [I Ride Down Into Temple: And Am Well Treated There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xi-i-ride-down-into-temple-and-am-well-treated-there)

Rescues Jack, carries him to her home, tends his wound, and hides him from troopers.

### [How Joan Saved the Army of the West; and Saw the Fight on Braddock Down](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xii-how-joan-saved-the-army-of-the-west-and-saw-the-fight-on-braddock-down)

Hides Jack from troopers, delivers the King's letter to Sir Ralph Hopton, and saves the Royalist army.

### [XIII: I Buy a Looking Glass at Bodmin Fair: And Meet with Mr. Hannibal Tingcomb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xiii-i-buy-a-looking-glass-at-bodmin-fair-and-meet-with-mr-hannibal-tingcomb)

Accompanies Jack to the fair, brawls with the Cheap Jack, identifies Mr. Tingcomb, and buries her father without tears.

### [XIV: I Do No Good in the House of Gleys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xiv-i-do-no-good-in-the-house-of-gleys)

Found washing at the well; helps Jack prepare for his journey.

### [XV: I Leave Joan and Ride to the Wars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xv-i-leave-joan-and-ride-to-the-wars)

Found in the Jew's Kitchen dressed up; wrestles Jack and declares her love and submission.

### [XVIII: Joan Does Me Her Last Service](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xviii-joan-does-me-her-last-service)

Sacrifices herself by luring four rebels into a quagmire; dies from a gunshot wound in Jack's arms.

### [The Adventure of the Hearse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xix-the-adventure-of-the-hearse)

Is buried by Jack in a grave dug near her father's resting place; Delia prepares her body.

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