Elsie's Children

Name: Elsie's Children
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Martha Finley
ISBN: 9781433261886

Author: Martha Finley

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/07/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

During a stay at Viamede, the family is blessed with a new addition, Lily, on loan from heaven for a short time. Then Elsie takes in Cousin Molly, a young girl who has been injured in a fall. Next, Elsie befriends a nearly blind child of her former governess, and Ronald once again joins the family. As Elsies children move from childhood into adulthood, young Elsies heart is captured by a fine young man.

About Martha Finley

Martha Finley (1828–1909) was born in Ohio. She was a private educator in Pennsylvania until she became ill and moved to Elkton, Maryland, where at age twenty-six, she began her literary career as a means to support herself. She wrote twenty-eight Elsie books and was one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time, with over twenty-five million readers in both America and England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kellyn on February 17, 2017

I prefer the original Elsie classics over the Life of Faith stories (they're just more authentic). They do have their faults, yes, but overall they're really good. Elsie's Children was about, surprise, Elsie's children! They're all pretty sweet ... and perfect ... although their parents don't really......more

Goodreads review by Holly on April 03, 2012

ELSIE'S CHILDREN is #6 in the Elsie Dinsmore series. By now Elsie has eight children,having pumped out babies as religiously as Queen Victoria. However, unlike that great and porcine monarch, Elsie remains slim, beautiful and eternally young. Most of the action centers round her daughters who are gr......more

Goodreads review by Mecque on March 03, 2011

These books are a trial to read as a Catholic,though I don't know why I expect differently. I wish the author had attempted to at least learn a bit about the faith before railing against in so overblown a manner. That said, the book was still generally pleasant and heartfelt......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on April 01, 2024

Although the editor posted is not the one I have read - I have a book from 1925. This series of books are so good This story is about Elsie's children... Having survived the civil war, and then the Ku Klux clan Elsie and her husband and children press on leaning on God and teaching their children to do......more

Goodreads review by Jean on October 15, 2021

The end of this first set of books. An interesting perspective they provide on events in America today.......more