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Experience the highs and lows of love and loss in this tender tale of the married lives of three of Elsie's children and their young families.Tags
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Martha Finley was born in 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio. She lived in Circleville, Ohio South Bend, Indiana and finally Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. She began her writing career by writing short stories for Sunday School papers. Her most popular works are the Elsie Dinsmore series which consisted of 28 titles. In addition, she wrote the Mildred Keith show more series which consisted of 7 titles. She also wrote over 50 short books and pamphlets and numerous short stories and articles. Finley died in 1909. show less
Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Elsie's New Relations
- Original title
- Elsie's New Relations: What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie
- Alternate titles
- Elsie's Relations
- Original publication date
- 1883
- People/Characters
- Elsie Dinsmore; Elsie Travilla Leland; Lester Leland; Edward Leland; Captain Raymond; Max (show all 10); Lulu; Gracie; Violet Travilla Raymond; Elsie Raymond
- Important places
- The South, USA
- First words
- It was late in the afternoon of a delicious October day.
Classifications
- Genres
- Kids, Fiction and Literature, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 813.3 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Middle 19th Century 1830-1861
- LCC
- PZ7 .F496 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 249
- Popularity
- 130,299
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.25)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 25
- ASINs
- 13
