02837cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000440011324500270015726400510018430000470023533600260028233700260030833800360033450000310037050801970040152015400059853400580213865300420219665300270223865300360226585601360230185600430243799900190248078575UtSlPG20260610134825.0mcr n260607r20261872utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aChatterton, Georgiana, Lady,d1806-187614aThe lost bride; vol. 1 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-30  aMWS, Chuck Greif 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.)  a"The lost bride; vol. 1" by Lady Georgiana Chatterton is a novel written in the late 19th century. It traces a young woman’s coming-of-age as love, faith, and identity are tested by a dramatic reversal of fortune, moving from an Italian childhood to English high society; key figures include her intense first love, Carlo Spinola, her manipulative guardian Henry Mordaunt, and the morally steady friend Norah Chandos.

The opening of this novel follows the narrator from a passionate Italian girlhood and the death of her English father to a Paris convent and then to Langdale Priory, her ancestral home. There she bonds with shrewd, kind Aunt Jane, whose family history hints that the true heir may be the son of the narrator’s lost elder uncle. Amid growing attachment to the estate and a tentative friendship with the candid, warm-hearted Norah Chandos (in sharp contrast to Norah’s ostentatious new step-mother), the narrator is rocked by her guardian’s ultimatum: marry him and keep the property, or refuse and forfeit all. She rejects him and soon learns the Canadian marriage and son are real; the heir is coming and she must leave. Wrestling with pride, love, and money, she briefly considers becoming a governess at the Chandos home, receives a small settlement (for herself and her mother), and is buoyed—uneasily—into London society by Lady Horatia Somerton. As she frets over a cooling letter from Carlo, the scene closes with preparations for her first great ball. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Hurst & Blackett, 1872  aInheritance and succession -- Fiction  aYoung women -- Fiction  aEnglish fiction -- 19th century4 uhttps://archive.org/details/lostbride01chat https://archive.org/details/lostbride02chat https://archive.org/details/lostbride03chat40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78575  c119293d119293