Project Gutenberg 2012-04-02 Public domain in the USA. 198 Veley, Margaret 1843 1887 Mitchelhurst Place: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 2) Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Paula Franzini and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Mitchelhurst Place: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 2)" by Margaret Veley is a work of fiction set during the late 19th century. The novel introduces readers to themes of social class, family legacy, and the intersection of history and personal relationships, largely through the interactions of its main characters—Barbada Strange and Reynold Harding. The story unfolds in the small, seemingly desolate village of Mitchelhurst, where the faded grandeur of Mitchelhurst Place serves as a poignant backdrop for the characters' struggles with pride, identity, and emotional connections. At the start of the novel, the reader is taken to a quiet country lane where two young figures, Reynold Harding and Barbara Strange, find themselves fated to meet. As a budding poet, Reynold is in search of inspiration and feels a deep connection to the Rothwell lineage, of which he is a descendant but feels estranged from. Their initial interaction is characterized by awkwardness and unspoken tension, marked by a moment where Barbara unintentionally drops a treasured gold cross, leading to an embarrassing incident for Reynold when he attempts to retrieve it. Their paths converge further when Barbara's uncle, Mr. Hayes, invites Reynold to stay at Mitchelhurst Place, setting the stage for complex social dynamics to unfold against the backdrop of familial expectations and the haunting presence of history associated with the Rothwell family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: British Literature 298487 2025-06-16T05:43:30.569393 text/html 302060 2012-04-01T22:54:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 110323 2012-04-01T22:54:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 202586 2025-06-16T05:43:40.072372 application/epub+zip 203153 2025-06-16T05:43:34.570393 application/epub+zip 180483 2025-06-16T05:43:33.019433 application/epub+zip 408679 2025-06-16T05:43:43.873822 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 376765 2025-06-16T05:43:38.846367 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301017 2022-09-18T05:23:31.574499 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 265279 2025-06-16T05:43:29.827425 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 265154 2012-04-01T22:54:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 102716 2012-04-01T22:54:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 265150 2012-04-01T22:54:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 102671 2012-04-01T22:54:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20425 2025-06-16T05:43:44.023835 application/rdf+xml 17929 2025-06-16T05:43:33.581383 image/jpeg 3966 2025-06-16T05:43:33.299393 image/jpeg 189330 2025-06-16T05:43:30.596392 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia