Project Gutenberg 2014-12-17 Public domain in the USA. 54 Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. 1850 1937 Miller, Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller, Alexander McVeigh, Mrs. Point, Mittie Frances Clarke Miller, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Lancaster's Choice Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) "Lancaster's Choice" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a fictional novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the affluent Old Lady Lancaster, a wealthy widow who, worried about her fortune and the future of her family estate, pressures her nephew Clive Lancaster to marry a suitable heiress. Clive, who values his independence and wishes to avoid the constraints of a predetermined marriage, plans to escape to America with his friend Lieutenant Harry De Vere, further complicating Lady Lancaster's matchmaking plans. The opening of the book introduces Lady Lancaster, who is determined to see her nephew married to secure the family legacy, and her nephew Clive, who is expressing his desire to postpone the inevitable marriage. Clive's plans lead him to America, where he is unexpectedly tasked with retrieving a young girl named Leonora West, the orphaned niece of Lady Lancaster's housekeeper. The narrative sets in motion a series of events that explore themes of duty, love, and societal expectations as Clive navigates the complexities of duty and personal desire, all while hinting at romantic entanglements with Leonora, who proves to be much more than a mere child. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Inheritance and succession -- Fiction England -- Fiction Love stories PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 355016 355036 2024-10-20T04:21:43.515821 2023-09-20T14:28:20.437509 text/html text/html 361331 2014-12-16T20:24:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 950646 2014-12-16T20:24:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 900331 2024-10-20T04:21:50.773752 application/epub+zip 902473 2024-10-20T04:21:44.673821 application/epub+zip 184896 2024-10-20T04:21:44.076860 application/epub+zip 1045171 2024-10-20T04:21:55.512742 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 995880 2024-10-20T04:21:49.894753 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 283220 2022-09-21T16:01:23.739316 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 312398 312195 2024-10-20T04:21:42.116793 2023-09-20T14:28:19.287472 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 312554 2014-12-16T20:24:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 115475 2014-12-16T20:24:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20440 2024-10-20T04:21:55.689780 application/rdf+xml 18489 2024-10-20T04:21:44.166842 image/jpeg 3003 2024-10-20T04:21:44.122780 image/jpeg 956529 2024-10-20T04:21:43.573779 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