# Ellice Quentin, and other stories

Author: Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76710

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ellice+Quentin%2C+and+other+stories+Hawthorne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I see by the papers that this grand old lady is dead. She had passed her eighty-ninth birthday. Born in a year when Warren Hastings was still on his trial for high crimes and misdemeanours, the only child of Sir Philip Kildhurm of Kildhurm Tower, she was married at seventeen to Captain Frank Mainwaring, of His Britannic Majesty's Navy--a man who enjoyed the distinction of being wounded at Trafalgar. Captain Mainwaring (knighted in 1811 on acceding to his uncle's estates) died in 1840; he left two sons and a daughter. Both the sons died in the cholera epidemic of 1832, unmarried. The daughter was wedded to a gentleman of family and estate, and accompanied him to India, where he held some o...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ellice-quentin-and-other-stories-76710/chapters/1/index.md)