Charles Garvice was one of the most commercially successful romance novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, producing over 150 novels that sold in enormous quantities to working-class readers. Only a Girl’s Love is representative of his output — a romantic tale built on the conventions of the era: virtuous heroines, misunderstandings, obstacles to love, and eventual happy resolution.
Garvice’s popularity provides a fascinating glimpse into the reading tastes of ordinary Victorian and Edwardian readers. This public-domain text is available as a free EPUB download from Better Gutenberg.