# The Children of Wilton Chase

The Children of Wilton Chase by L. T. Meade has 55,288 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [L. T. Meade](https://musael.com/books/authors/l-t-meade.md) (1854–1914)
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 55,288
- **Reading time:** 3 h 41 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 57 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 36 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 41 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 4 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Children of Wilton Chase is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26409

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 55,288
- Chapters: 23
- Dialogue: 52% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26409 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1064125W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26409

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-children-of-wilton-chase