
Elsie's Girlhood
Author: Martha Finley
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Children's Fiction

Author: Martha Finley
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Children's Fiction
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.
I actually picked up this book without knowing anything about it (my copy was printed 1872). It's definitely very Christian, which is fine but it's very dated Christian. I mean to say, according to the values put forth by the author theatre and dancing are both activities good Christians don't partak......more