The Lost Duchess and The Minor Canon

Inside this edition

Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 19 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.

• Cane and Wilson's to Datchet House - The Empty BroughamThe direct carriage journey and the impossible-looking arrival that begins the ransom hoax.
• The Bank to Burlington Arcade - Five Hundred SovereignsHereward's schematic route from the bank, through his meeting with Ivor, to the Piccadilly rendezvous.
• Cane and Wilson's - The Decoy SequenceThe split sequence that sends Mabel to Draper's Buildings while her unnamed double takes the brougham.
• Marchbury Cathedral and the Close - Sunday to MondayThe service, High Street meeting and appointment at Dale's house in the cathedral close.
• The Black Bag Opens - Poulter's Actual ProposalThe five-pound choir gift, pamphlets, advertising tour, manuscript ballads and Dale's refusal.
• The Lost Duchess - Principal Characters
• The Minor Canon - Principal Characters
• Hereward - Duke of DatchetThe anxious husband who follows the ransom instructions after the brougham returns empty.

This edition

Title

The Lost Duchess and The Minor Canon

Author

Anonymous

First published

1909

Illustrated plates

56 original artworks · 19 open to everyone

Chapters

4 · about 9,796 words

Reading time

39 min

Language

EN

Formats

Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription

Publisher

LitLab — The Illustrated Classics

On LitLab since

September 2026

Rights

Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.

Source text

Project Gutenberg #2038