Elsie's Womanhood

by Martha Finley 182

Overview

Martha Finley was a 19th century American author of children's stories. Her characters were good children rewarded for their high moral character. She wrote Elsie Dinsmore in 1867, which was her first book about Elsie. Elsie was a virtuous Christian girl who resisted small temptations. This book was enormously popular. Finley wrote 27additional books about Elsie taking her through her adult life and ending with her as a grandmother. This series was popular in the United States and in Britain selling over 25,000,000 books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781490905143
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/03/2013
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Martha Finley (April 26, 1828 - January 30, 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26, 1828, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the pseudonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.