grondale

Updated: May 24, 2025

This Lady Ursula was the daughter of Lord Thomas Cutts of Grondale Abbey in England. She had been in love with an officer named Fowler, who was supposed to have been slain in battle. After the death of her father and mother, Lady Ursula came to Kittery, bringing twenty men-servants and several women.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.

Here, in lonely dignity, lived Lady Ursula, daughter of the lord of Grondale Abbey, across the water, whose distant grandeurs were in some sort reflected in this manor of the wilderness.

Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner - Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete

This was in the kitchen. An old garden and summer-house, and roses, currant-bushes, and tulips, which Lady Ursula had brought from Grondale Abbey in Old England. Although a hundred and fifty years before, and though their roots were propagated all over the country, they were still flourishing in the original garden.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.

Here, in lonely dignity, lived Lady Ursula, daughter of the lord of Grondale Abbey, across the water, whose distant grandeurs were in some sort reflected in this manor of the wilderness.

Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner - Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land