Courting Emma Howe Author:Margaret A. Robinson In 1905, Emma Howe is plain and at the threshold of spinsterhood. So when she receives an unexpected marriage proposal from a man she has never seen, and knows only through his letters, she breaks painfully with her uncomprehending family and crosses the country by train to meet him in person...she finally comes face-to-face with Arthur Smollett... more », a stubborn, single-minded man who has created a vision of Emma as the perfect wife. ...The gentle, considerate Arthur of Emma's imagination is entirely different from the man she encounters in Washington's North Falls; and Arthur's image of a wife is nothing like this small, strong-willed woman who seems so disagreeable.« less