A Six-Cylinder Courtship
Edward Salisbury Field
Publisher: The John McBride Company, 1907
Description
Young millionaire is sitting behind the wheel, waiting for a friend who's dashed into the druggist's with a speck of dust in his eye. Glorious young woman approaches, mistakes his $11,000 foreign import for a car-for-hire. Subterfuge, exposure, reconciliation, romance.
Notes
Love me a chauffeur romance and this one is light, well-written, and charmingly silly. First-person by male MC. Some fun paeans to the gasoline life. Illustrations by Fisher and Underwood. Slim & worth the hour it takes to read. Whatever your mood, you'll smile.
Tags
Author: male
Genre/Tone: comedy, romance
Location/Setting: United States, Northeast
Narrative Voice: first-person
Recommend: recommended
Relationship Convention: f/m
Time Set: 1900-1909, 1910-1919
Time Written: 1900-1909, 1910-1919
Tropes: disguise, identity, mistaken, love at first sight, chauffeur/client
Character 1: American, beautiful/handsome, single, young
Character 2: American, rich, single, young, determined, heir/heiress
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