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This carefully crafted ebook: "Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Martha Finley (1828-1909) 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.Excerpt: "Lulu's first thought on awaking the next morning, was of the talk of the previous evening, with her father. He had said she might have the pleasure of telling Gracie the good news in regard to the money to be earned by good conduct, and that which was to be given by him in the name of each of his older children; also the privilege he would accord them of selecting the particular cause, or causes, to which the money should go. Eager to avail herself of the permission, and see Gracie's delight, she sprang from her bed…"

e-artnow presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale.The holidays have arrived in Dinsmore household and Grandma Elsie has gathered together her large and extended family. There are snowball fights and sleigh races going one. Children play charades and enjoy a magic lantern show and other amusement provided by family ventriloquist, Cousin Ronald. There is also a burglar, but this is a Christmas story.

Enter the world of Elsie dinsmore! These nineteenth-century fictional chronicles of a beautiful young heiress in the Civil War South have captivated generations of 10- to 14-year-old readers eager to follow Elsie s life from childhood to motherhood and beyond. You ll find Christian values, tender romance, family fun, and lasting lessons "refreshed for a new generation! These later books in the series include visits to historic sites in Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and New York, and feature custom illustrations. Christmas with Grandma Elsie, Volume 14 Sleigh rides, ice skating, and rousing snowball fights abound when Grandma Elsie hosts the holidays! Cousin Ronald Lilburn visits and is a welcome source of fun.

It was about the middle of November. There had been a long rain storm, ending in sleet and snow, and now the sun was shining brightly on a landscape sheeted with ice: walks and roads were slippery with it, every tree and shrub was encased in it, and glittering and sparkling as if loaded with diamonds, as its branches swayed and tossed in the wind. At Ion Mrs. Elsie Travilla stood at the window of her dressing-room gazing with delighted eyes upon the lovely scene. "How beautiful!" she said softly to herself; "and my Father made it all. 'He gives snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels.'

The various " sisters, cousins, and aunts " composing the year by year increasing Elsie's relatives gather from the Oaks, the Laurels, the Pines, Woodburn, Fairview, and Roselands to spend their Christmas at Ion with the original Elsie, now a delightful old grandmother. They eat, drink, and are merry for a week, talk over the best way to spend $10,000 a year in charities, and finally have a little adventure with burglars.

Elsie Dinsmore is a children's book series written by Martha Finley.1.Elsie Dinsmore 2.Elsie's Holidays at Roselands 3.Elsie's Girlhood 4.Elsie's Womanhood 5.Elsie's Motherhood 6.Elsie's Children 7.Elsie's Widowhood 8.Grandmother Elsie 9.Elsie's New Relations 10.Elsie at Nantucket 11.The Two Elsies 12.Elsie's Kith and Kin 13.Elsie's Friends at Woodburn 14.Christmas with Grandma Elsie 15.Elsie and the Raymonds 16.Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds17.Elsie's Vacation 18.Elsie at Viamede 19.Elsie at Ion 20.Elsie at the World's Fair 21.Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters 22.Elsie at Home 23.Elsie on the Hudson 24.Elsie in the South 25.Elsie's Young Folks 26.Elsie's Winter Trip 27.Elsie and Her Loved Ones 28.Elsie and Her Namesakes