In this first volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, sweet, motherless eight-year-old Elsie struggles with several bewildering problems. She has never known her mother, and her relationship with her father is filled with misunderstanding and tears. The young girl learns to depend wholly upon her faith in her heavenly father.

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Elsie experiences first love and her family has to adjust to her father's remarriage.

It is a time for celebration as Elsie prepares to marry her beloved Edward. Following their wedding, the happy couple honeymoon at Viamede, childhood home of Elsie's mother in the Bayou region of Louisiana. Here Elsie's faith matures, and she learns to share her beliefs with others in a meaningful way. Four children—Elsie, Edward, Violet, and Harold—are born to Elsie and Edward, who experience the joys and heart-aches of parenthood. Meanwhile, the country teeters on the brink of civil war. Mindful of the tragedies unfolding around her, Elsie is touched by the painful divisions brought on by the War Between the States and the devastating loss of family and friends that accompanies it.

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In this sixth volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, Elsie and Edward winter at Viamede where the newest member of their family, Lily, is born. The family is thrown into turmoil, however, when a carriage accident threatens the life of Grandpa Dinsmore and one of their children dies from a mysterious ailment.

In this seventh volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, Edward and Elsie's daughter, young Elsie, is saddened by a separation from her beloved Lester, who decides to study abroad. Shortly after Lester leaves for Europe, Edward falls ill and dies. Elsie learns to rely on her father, Horace Dinsmore, for strength while depending on her heavenly father as well.

It was a delightful morning early in the dew-drops on the still green grass of the neatly kept lawn sparkled in the rays of the newly risen sun; the bright waters of the lakelet also as ruffled by the breeze they broke gently about the prow of the pretty row-boat moored to the little wharf; the gardens were gay with bright-hued flowers the trees gorgeous in their autumnal dress.

Ready to put aside her mourning clothes, Elsie spends an idyllic summer with her family in seaside cottages on Nantucket Island, where minor disturbances include a test of Lulu's obedience and of Zoe's faith and trust in God.

Lester and Elsie Leland take responsibility for Lester's orphaned niece, Evelyn, who becomes close to Lulu, and they and their families decide to spend the winter on a Louisiana plantation.

Elsie's Kith and Kin, Book 12

Lulu presides over holiday celebrations as hostess at Woodburn and learns a lesson about Christian charity, and she and her extended family enjoy new additions, endure Captain Raymond's injury in a riding accident, and face a rattlesnake at Lulu's surprise birthday party.Lulu is the hostess at Woodburn for the holidays and learns a lesson about Christian charity, and she and her family enjoy new additions, endure Captain Raymond's injury in a riding accident, and face a rattlesnake at her birthday party.

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Elsie and the Raymonds, Book 15

Elsie and her family learn more about American history and their Christian faith as the Raymonds return from the West, visiting West Point on their way, and take the family on a yacht trip from Boston to Annapolis.

Elsie and her family rely on their Christian faith and their trust in God's plan when Elsie must undergo an operation and then travels to Louisiana to recover.

Elsie at Viamede, Book 18

Elsie and her cousin discover a long-lost cousin, while others in the family experience both hardships and joys as they learn to trust in God.

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Elsie and her family trust in God's protection as they tour the Great Lakes in a yacht, endure a violent storm, and visit Quebec and Rhode Island.

At Ion, two weddings take place including that of Rosie Travilla and Will Croly, with the two little Elsies as flower girls, and that of Dick Percival and Maud Dinsmore, plus Captain Raymond gives permission for his friend Captain Donald Keith to marry Lucilla.The Conley brothers become fathers, two couples get married, and Captain Donald Keith prepares to ask Lucilla Raymond to marry him, as changes come to Elsie's extended Christian family.

Elsie on the Hudson, Book 23

Grandmother Elsie and Raymond travel to Florida and on to Viamede, Elsie's Louisiana home, where engagements and weddings take place, and then following winter at Viamede, the families travel to Atlantic City and to the Maine coast for a summer holiday.

Two of Elsie's grandchildren are married, and her grandson Max Raymond serves with Commodore Dewey during the Spanish-American War.

Elsie's family enjoys a winter trip to the Caribbean and South America, while Lulu and Evelyn set up house at Sunnyside with their husbands.

The Elsie Dinsmore Novels, Martha Finley, in our opinion is the author of the best Series of novels that we have seen in our forty-three years of reviewing. Written by Martha Finley, an unmarried teacher of the last century, these novels proved to be a means of conveying her deep love for Christ Jesus. She loved her Lord, she loved His Word, and this love was passed on to His sheep through the writing of by far the best and most Biblical novels you will ever read or see. Altogether there are 28 of these novels, all built around Elsie Dinsmore, her immediate family, her extended family, and her neighbors.

Finley, Martha