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Elsie experiences first love and her family has to adjust to her father's remarriage.
Reproduction of the original: Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley
Elsie's Girlhood
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"As Elsie Dinsmore grows up and becomes a young woman, her family undergoes major changes.
They learned on meeting Herbert at breakfast that he had fared quite as well as his sister. Elsie slipped a valuable ring on Lucy's finger and laid a gold pencil-case beside Herbert's plate. " Oh, charming! a thousand thanks, mon ami!
Martha Finley (April 26, 1828 - January 30, 1909)[1] was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years.
Her father was in Europe until she was almost eight years old as the first book begins. The first Elsie books deal with a constant moral conflict between Christian principles and familial loyalty.
Martha Finley (April 26, 1828 - January 30, 1909)was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.