Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

"Elsie Dinsmore" by Martha Finley is a children's book series written between 1867 and 1905. Set on American plantations before the Civil War, the series follows eight-year-old Elsie as she navigates a difficult relationship with her strict father, Horace, who returns from Europe to claim her. Their bond is tested by constant conflict between his rigid discipline and her devout Christian principles. The books became nineteenth-century bestsellers, launching a 28-book series that sold millions of copies despite—or perhaps because of—their intensely pious heroine. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Finley, Martha, 1828-1909
Title Elsie Dinsmore
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Dinsmore
Credits Produced by Vital Debroey, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 75.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Dinsmore, Elsie (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Family life -- Southern States -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 6440
Release Date
Last Update May 6, 2016
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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