Enter the world of Elsie Dinsmore! These nineteenth-century fictional chronicles of a beautiful young heiress in the Civil War South have captivated generations of 10- to 14-year-old readers eager to follow Elsie's life from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Covers feature custom illustrations. Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Book 2: Christmas is disrupted when Elsie must disobey her father in a matter of faith and conscience. Will her life-threatening illness change his heart?
asked her mother with a look of mingled surprise and alarm, while Herbert started up asking, "Is it Elsie ? Oh ! Lucy, is she much hurt ? " " Yes," sobbed Lucy, " we all thought she was dead, it was so long before she spoke, or moved, ...
In the first title included in this volume, Elsie Dinsmore, eight year old Elsie's Christian faith leads to conflicts with her unbelieving family and her strict father.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
As Elsie Dinsmore grows up and becomes a young woman, her family also experiences major changes when her father remarries.
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.
Elsie felt in better spirits in the morning; her sleep had refreshed her, and she arose with a stronger confidence in the love of both her earthly and her heavenly Father.She found her papa ready, and waiting for her.
The Two Elsies
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.