Project Gutenberg 2009-11-13 Public domain in the USA. 92 Magruder, Julia 1854 1907 00001139 A Manifest Destiny Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A Manifest Destiny" by Julia Magruder is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story centers around Bettina Mowbray, a young woman who navigates her way through love, loss, and ambition as she seeks to cement her place in society after the death of her beloved mother. With her beauty as her primary asset, Bettina eyes a future with Horace Spotswood, the heir to a title in English aristocracy, but encounters obstacles in her pursuit of wealth and status. At the start of the novel, Bettina is aboard an ocean steamer bound for England, keenly aware of the admiration she garners from fellow passengers. As she mourns her mother's recent death, her focus begins to shift from grief to ambition, fully believing that marrying into the aristocracy could fill the void left in her heart. Upon arrival in London, Bettina meets Lord Hurdly, who challenges her plans and hints at a power dynamics that may alter her future. This revelation sets the stage for an exploration of her struggles between societal expectations, personal desires, and the concept of true love—ultimately leading her to ponder what sacrifices she's willing to make for the life she seeks. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30464/30464-h/images/icover.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/30464/30464-h/images/icover.jpg en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 326051 326008 2024-09-13T05:28:12.360548 2023-09-13T10:22:11.955608 text/html text/html 332276 2009-11-13T10:20:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 771116 2009-11-13T10:20:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 925876 2024-09-13T05:28:17.990545 application/epub+zip 929361 2024-09-13T05:28:13.750544 application/epub+zip 191390 2024-09-13T05:28:12.709547 application/epub+zip 1037628 2024-09-13T05:28:21.597545 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1001963 2024-09-13T05:28:17.556571 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 265279 2022-09-14T06:25:51.386250 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290499 290311 2024-09-13T05:28:11.800614 2023-09-13T10:22:11.429633 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 290405 2009-11-13T10:20:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 107050 2009-11-13T10:20:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 290396 2009-11-13T10:20:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 107024 2009-11-13T10:20:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20142 2024-09-13T05:28:21.737487 application/rdf+xml 22562 2024-09-13T05:28:13.361629 image/jpeg 3088 2024-09-13T05:28:13.314549 image/jpeg 773045 2024-09-13T05:28:12.412531 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia