Elsies Holidays at Roselands, Martha Finley
Elsies Holidays at Roselands, Martha Finley
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Elsie's Holidays at Roselands

Author: Martha Finley

Series: Original Elsie Classics #2

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

Eight-year-old Elsie Dinsmore is enjoying a blissful Christmas holiday season with her family when a crisis arises that threatens to change her life as she knows it. Her father has made a request of her that she believes would violate her conscience, and Elsie feels she must refuse him. But he fails to see her refusal as a matter of her deep faith in God, believing that Elsie is merely being willful and disobedient.Elsie clings to the promise that her heavenly father will not forsake her as, one by one, everything she holds dear is taken from her. When the turmoil brought on by this conflict brings life-threatening illness for Elsie and a life-changing crisis for her father, Elsie’s faith is tested to the limits.

About Martha Finley

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.

About Marguerite Gavin

Marguerite Gavin is a seasoned theater veteran, a five-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones and Publishers Weekly awards. She has been an actor, director, and audiobook narrator for her entire professional career. With over four hundred titles to her credit, her narration spans nearly every genre, from nonfiction to mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and children’s fiction. AudioFile magazine says, “Marguerite Gavin…has a sonorous voice, rich and full of emotion.”

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

Quotes

“There has been almost no character in American juvenile fiction which has attained more widespread interest and affection than Elsie.” Ladies Home Journal, 1893

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