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.

Ghostwriters
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.

Titles

 * 1) Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret, 1913
 * 2) Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall; Or, Solving the Campus Mystery, 1913
 * 3) Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods, 1913
 * 4) Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point; Or, Nita, the Girl Castaway, 1913
 * 5) Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; Or, Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys, 1913
 * 6) Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box, 1915
 * 7) Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm; Or, What Became of the Baby Orphans, 1915
 * 8) Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace, 1915
 * 9) Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund, 1916
 * 10) Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton, 1916
 * 11) Ruth Fielding at College; Or, The Missing Examination Papers, 1917
 * 12) Ruth Fielding in the Saddle; Or, College Girls in the Land of Gold, 1917
 * 13) Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross; Or, Doing Her Best for, Uncle Sam, 1918
 * 14) Ruth Fielding at the War Front; Or, The Hunt for, The Lost Soldier, 1918
 * 15) Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound; Or, A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils, 1919
 * 16) Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point, 1920
 * 17) Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest; Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies, 1921
 * 18) Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands, 1922
 * 19) Ruth Fielding Treasure Hunting; Or, A Moving Picture That Became Real, 1923
 * 20) Ruth Fielding in the Far North; Or, The Lost Motion Picture Company, 1924
 * 21) Ruth Fielding at Golden Pass; Or, The Perils of an Artificial Avalanche, 1925
 * 22) Ruth Fielding in Alaska; Or, The Girl Miners of Snow Mountain, 1926
 * 23) Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario; Or, Striving for, the Motion Picture Prize, 1927
 * 24) Ruth Fielding at Cameron Hall; Or, A Mysterious Disappearance, 1928
 * 25) Ruth Fielding Clearing Her Name; Or, The Rivals of Hollywood, 1929
 * 26) Ruth Fielding in Talking Pictures; Or, The Prisoners of the Tower, 1930
 * 27) Ruth Fielding and Baby June 1931
 * 28) Ruth Fielding and Her Double, 1932
 * 29) Ruth Fielding and Her Greatest Triumph; Or, Saving Her Company from Disaster, 1933
 * 30) Ruth Fielding and Her Crowning Victory; Or, Winning Honors Abroad, 1934