02623cam a22003973u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000280012624500330015426400510018730000470023833600260028533700260031133800360033750000310037350800140040452013970041853400660181565300270188165300170190865300330192565300250195865300280198365300350201165300530204685600640209985600430216399900190220676420UtSlPG20260610134752.0mcr n260607r20251915utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a15019628  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aRuck, Berta,d1878-197814aThe wooing of Rosamond Fayre 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-06-30  aAl Haines  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915  aYoung women -- Fiction  aLove stories  aMistaken identity -- Fiction  aBetrothal -- Fiction  aLove-letters -- Fiction  aPrivate secretaries -- Fiction  aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Fiction4 uhttps://archive.org/details/wooingofrosamond00ruck/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76420  c117145d117145