
Elsie's Motherhood
Author: Martha Finley
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/07/2008
Categories: Children's Fiction

Author: Martha Finley
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/07/2008
Categories: Children's Fiction
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.
More focused on Elsie's children than Elsie at this point, it's still a pretty good book. At some point I'm going to come through and reread all these and write actual reviews and give actual ratings, but for now, I'll just say that it was good. :)......more
ELSIE'S MOTHERHOOD is #5 in the Elsie Dinsmore series. It's set in 1867-1868, the Reconstruction Era of the South. Elsie and her husband set out to educate the freed slaves, but the local Ku Klux Klan doesn't like that and burns down the schoolhouse. Nothing deterred, Mr. Travilla has the entire str......more