Elsie's Holidays At Roselands

Name: Elsie's Holidays At Roselands
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Martha Finley
ISBN: 9781455102662

Author: Martha Finley

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Eightyearold Elsie Dinsmore is enjoying Christmas with her family when a terrible crisis arises. She believes that obeying a request her father has made would violate her conscience, and she must refuse him. Elsie clings to her faith in God as, one by one, all the things she holds dear are taken from her, including even her fathers presence.

About Martha Finley

Martha Finley (1828â€“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 childrenâ€™s authors of all time, with over twenty-five million readers in both America and England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on March 29, 2012

ELSIE'S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS is the sequel to ELSIE DINSMORE. It brings our heroine, sugar-sweet Elsie, into direct conflict with her godless, domineering Papa. Elsie, as introduced in the first volume, is picture-perfect, a little Southern belle living in Virginia in the 1840's. Elsie seems the id......more

Goodreads review by Mecque on January 07, 2010

Being a Catholic myself, the climax of this book made me laugh hysterically. Amusingly melodramatic, and a good set up for the next book.......more

Goodreads review by Clara on January 10, 2021

Much like its predecessor, Elsie's Holiday at Roselands is either simplistic, contrived, and awkward, or else wickedly accurate satire (I mean, I've never read Christian childrens' fiction, so I don't know if it's accurate, but everyone else seems to think it's real, so if it's not, Martha Finley is......more

Goodreads review by Candace on October 09, 2020

I've loved this book ever since I was about 10 years old. See my review on the first of the series for reasons why. The first book was originally published in 1868, solidly in the defined dates of the American Romantic Period of literature. This most definitely explains the melodramatic nature of th......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on January 31, 2024

Elsie is longing for her father's love. She has a strong love for her Saviour and will not do anything that is against His Word or Commands. This has caused an estrangement of sorts with her father. He demands obedience. Her father has taken an extended leave rom Elsie in hopes that she will conform t......more