Ruth Fielding

The Ruth Fielding books were an early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, published between 1913 and 1934 under the pseudonym Alice B. Emerson.

Ruth Fielding begins the series as an orphan who comes to live with her miserly uncle and, in later titles, goes from boarding school to college and on into adulthood.

Unusually for a main character in a Stratemeyer Syndicate series, Ruth Fielding marries.

[1] Edward Stratemeyer created the series and wrote plot outlines, but the books themselves were written by a number of ghostwriters.

Three authors wrote the series under the pseudonym of Alice B. Emerson: W. Bert Foster wrote titles 1 through 19; Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward wrote titles 20 through 22; and Mildred A. Wirt Benson wrote titles 23 through 30.