Elsie Dinsmore

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Elsie Dinsmore is a children's book series written by Martha Finley (1828-1909) between 1867 and 1905.

The books, in order of publication, were:

  1. Elsie Dinsmore (1867) - online at Project Gutenberg
  2. Elsie's Holiday at Roselands (1868)
  3. Elsie's Girlhood (1872) - online at Project Gutenberg
  4. Elsie's Womanhood (1875)
  5. Elsie's Motherhood (1876)
  6. Elsie's Children
  7. Elsie's Widowhood
  8. Grandmother Elsie
  9. Elsie's New Relations
  10. Elsie at Nantucket
  11. The Two Elsie's
  12. Elsie's Kith and Kin
  13. Elsie's Friends at Woodburn
  14. Christmas with Grandma Elsie
  15. Elsie and the Raymonds
  16. Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds
  17. Elsie's Vacation
  18. Elsie at Viamede
  19. Elsie at Ion
  20. Elsie at the World's Fair
  21. Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters
  22. Elsie at Home
  23. Elsie on the Hudson
  24. Elsie in the South
  25. Elsie's Young Folks
  26. Elsie's Winter Trip
  27. Elsie and Her Loved Ones
  28. Elsie and Her Namesakes

[edit] Elsie's Family

In the first book it is made known that Elsie does not live with her parents but with her paternal grandfather, his second wife (Elsie's step-grandmother), and their six children. Elsie's mother died in childbirth leaving her in the care of her mother's guardian. Her father was in Europe until she was eight years old in the first book. Her father later marries Rose Allison and has two more children a boy named Horace and a girl named Rose.

Elsie later marries her father's good friend Edward Travilla. They have seven children, a girl named Elsie, a boy named Edward, a girl named Violet, twin boys named Herbert and Harold, a girl named Lily, a girl named Rose, and a boy named Walter.

There is also a series of 'Violet' books, where the story is continued in the life of Elsie's daughter, Violet.

[edit] Places featured in the Books

  1. Roselands- A plantation owned by Elsie's grandfather. Elsie lives here during the first two books.
  2. The Oaks-A plantation owned by Elsie's father. Elsie later moves here with her father after he returns from Europe.
  3. Ion-A plantation owned by Edward Travilla and his mother. Elsie later moves here after she marries Edward Travilla. The majority of the books take place here.
  4. Woodburn-A plantation owned by Violet's husband Captain Raymond.
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