Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 200 Chester, Greville John 1830 1892 Evelyn Manwaring : $b A tale of Hampton Court Palace $aLondon :$bMarcus Ward & Co., $c1883. MWS, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Evelyn Manwaring: A Tale of Hampton Court Palace" by Greville John Chester is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on the grace-and-favour world of Hampton Court and the storied, troubled Manwaring family, where pride of lineage collides with love, loyalty, and scandal. The main figures include gentle, steadfast Evelyn, her proud genealogist father, her soldier-brother Lionel, her brilliant younger brother Wilfred, and kind neighbors like Miss Sarah Strong and the Duchess of Ribblesdale. The opening of the story follows Evelyn’s fog-shrouded arrival at Hampton Court to take over Lady Glengriskin’s rooms, her private collapse of grief, and her rescue by her warm-hearted neighbor, Miss Sarah Strong, who feeds, comforts, and promises to present her to the Duchess. The narrative then turns to Holmcastle Manor in North Lancashire: the Manwarings’ ancient seat, the Squire’s consuming obsession with pedigree, and the children’s upbringing—Evelyn beloved as “the Lily of Arrow Dale,” Lionel a rising officer, and Wilfred a gifted youth. Sent to the tutor Dr. Massenger, Wilfred bonds with the young Duke of Ribblesdale and clashes with the slippery Augustus Cubleigh; after a visit to a local collector, stolen gold coins are “found” in Wilfred’s waistcoat, and he is falsely branded a thief. Cast out by his implacable father despite the Rector’s plea and Evelyn’s love, Wilfred leaves home in despair and disappears under an assumed name. As searches reveal he has sailed abroad, Massenger arrives at Holmcastle to confess that Wilfred’s innocence is proved and Cubleigh was the culprit, leaving the Squire devastated. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/evelynmanwaringt00ches 20220603054316chester 1883 GB Reading ease score: 61.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England) -- Fiction PR Text Category: Novels Category: British Literature 363703 2025-07-30T08:00:57.715337 text/html 335586 2025-06-27T12:23:39 text/html 1646309 2025-07-30T08:01:05.853271 application/epub+zip 1643520 2025-07-30T08:00:59.812267 application/epub+zip 411831 2025-07-30T08:00:58.665361 application/epub+zip 2494512 2025-07-30T08:01:10.227223 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2414557 2025-07-30T08:01:04.891248 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 312101 2025-07-30T08:00:56.648314 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 292183 2025-06-27T12:23:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13881 2025-07-30T08:01:10.424250 application/rdf+xml 15002 2025-07-30T08:00:58.956322 image/jpeg 2367 2025-07-30T08:00:58.785302 image/jpeg 2341698 2025-07-30T08:00:57.942338 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