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Description edit
Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldly father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.
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Characters/People edit
- Elsie: A perfect, eight-year-old girl whose only fault is that she does not forgive herself until long after God has and she doesn't value herself as she ought to as His creation
- Horace Dinsmore: Elsie's athiest and strong-willed father
- Enna: Horace's half-sister who is younger than Elsie but her greatest tormenter
- Adelaide: Elsie's oldest aunt, a young and kind woman
- Mr. Travilla: Horace's closest friend who is kind to Elsie
- Miss Rose: A young woman who comes to visit Adelaide and becomes close friends with Elsie
- Arthur: Add a description of this character.
- Chloe
- Lucy Carrington
- Lora
- Jim
- Walter
- Miss Allison
- Herbert
- Louise
- Miss Stevens
- Papa
- Massa Horace
- Caroline
- Mrs. Carrington
- John
- Mary Leslie
First Sentence edit
THE school-room at Roselands was a very pleasant apartment; the ceiling, it is true, was somewhat lower than in the more modern portion of the building, for the wing in which it was situated dated back to the old-fashioned days prior to the Revolution, while the larger part of the mansion had not stood more than twenty or thirty years; but the effect was relieved by windows reaching from floor to ceiling, and opening on a veranda which overlooked a lovely flower-garden, beyond which were fields and woods and hills.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 28 in Elsie Dinsmore. (standard series)
Followed by Elsie's Holiday.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Martha Finley (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.3
Subjects edit
- Books › Children's Books › History & Historical Fiction › United States › Fiction
- Books › Children's Books › Religions › Fiction › Christian
- Books › Teens › History & Historical Fiction › Historical Fiction
- Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Suspense
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
- Books › Children's Books › Issues
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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