02621cam a22003973u 4500 76420 UtSlPG 20260610134752.0 m cr n 260607r20251915utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 15019628 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 The wooing of Rosamond Fayre Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-06-30 Al Haines "The wooing of Rosamond Fayre" by Berta Ruck is a novel written in the early 20th century. It’s a light, witty romance about love set in motion by misdirected letters and mistaken identity, moving from an English country house to a French seaside village on the eve of war. The story centers on capable, charming Rosamond Fayre, dutiful philanthropist Eleanor Urquhart, and Eleanor’s adventurous cousin and fiancé, Ted Urquhart, whose courtship-by-post takes an unexpected turn. At the start of the story, Rosamond, hired as Eleanor’s secretary at Urquhart’s Court, is asked to write Eleanor’s weekly letters to Ted abroad—and even to sign them—despite her misgivings. Her first carefully neutral note, scented by slipped-in rose petals, prompts Ted’s intrigued reply and, soon after, an impulsive, unannounced return to England. Finding Eleanor away at a French Holiday Hostel for working girls (with Rosamond temporarily in charge), he travels there incognito, rescues two of the girls from a cliff mishap with Rosamond’s help, and—mistaking Rosamond for his fiancée—becomes instantly fascinated. Invited to tea at the Hostel, he withholds his name while Pansy, a flamboyant “Principal Boy,” leads the chatter; the scene ends with Ted plotting to continue his anonymous wooing of the woman he believes is Eleanor. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915 Young women -- Fiction Love stories Mistaken identity -- Fiction Betrothal -- Fiction Love-letters -- Fiction Private secretaries -- Fiction World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Fiction https://archive.org/details/wooingofrosamond00ruck/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76420 117145 117145