Set in Silver by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Description

Set in Silver, published in 1909, is the husband-and-wife team at play: Charles Norris Williamson, the pioneering motoring journalist, and Alice Muriel Williamson, who turned his travel notes into best-selling romance. They dedicated this book to “a great man, and a great motorist,” and the title comes from Shakespeare’s praise of the island kingdom — “this precious stone set in the silver sea.”

When heiress Ellaline Lethbridge wants to slip away and marry her young French officer, she persuades her friend Audrie Brendon — a poor American singing teacher at a Versailles finishing school — to take her place and charm the “dragon” of a guardian. Audrie agrees, reasoning it her chance to gain England, and the deception works until a sharp-eyed English nobleman meets her and decides her story is not what it seems. What follows is told in letters and telegrams from French towns, Channel boats and English country roads, with the romantic chase impossible to resist.

What makes it special

• A comedy of mistaken identity driven entirely by letters — one of the most charming structures in Edwardian fiction.
• Two heroines, two suitors and one collapse of decorum, all handled with a feather-light touch.
• The motoring couple’s trademark blend of travelogue and love story.

About This DodaBooks Edition

You get the untouched full text in a typeset page that keeps every letter, telegram and postmark, with a linked index so skimming between correspondents is effortless, and clean rendering on every screen size.