Courtship Fiction Books

Belles and Ringers

Hawley Smart

Belles and Ringers is a courtship fiction written by Henry Hawley Smart, who was an English army officer and novelist, who wrote as Capt. Hawley Smart. He was praised for his realistic racing and hunt..

Love Me Little, Love Me Long

Charles Reade

Love Me Little, Love Me Long is a fiction novel written by Charles Reade, an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth...

The Egoist - A Comedy in Narrative

George Meredith

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith, an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. The novel recounts the story o..

The Rivals - A Comedy

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated in numerous adaptions, inc..

Geoffrey Strong

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Geoffrey Strong is a courtship fiction story written by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, an American writer, poet whose other works include "Captain January," "Melody," "Marie," etc.Excerpts:It certainl..

Gullible's Travels

Ring Lardner

Gullible's Travels is a humorous story written by Ring Lardner, an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre..

Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

Sinclair Lewis

The ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York, wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons. He nods to a..

A Woman Ventures

David Graham Phillips

Mr. Bromfield was not a “family man.” He had left his wife and home first to the neglect of servants, and afterward to the care of his daughter. As Emily grew older and able to judge his life-failure,..