Books with title Elsie's Motherhood, Book 5

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They had already had their half hour with mamma which made so sweet a beginning of each day yet she too must have a liberal share of the eagerly bestowed caresses; while Bruno a great Newfoundland the pet playfellow and guardian of the little flock testified his delight in the scene by leaping about among them fawning upon one and another wagging his tail and uttering again and again a short joyous bark.

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In a frightening incident, Elsie's husband, Edward Travilla, narrowly survives an accidental shooting when friends tease son Edward, Jr., into firing a loaded pistol. The shot grazes Edward's head, and he survives with only minor damage. Soon life in the Travilla household returns to its calm routine. In the meantime, Elsie welcomes a cousin from Scotland who brings a very special talent with him as well as news of her mother's ancestral family. Elsie and Edward take great delight in their burgeoning family. The aftermath of the Civil War provides them with many opportunities to uphold their heritage and faith in practical ways, but they are caught up in a campaign against a powerful adversary--the Ku Klux Klan--as they fight to protect the innocent from unjust persecution.

Elsie's Motherhood Finley Martha Martha Finley was a 19th century American author of children's stories. Her characters were good children rewarded for their high moral character. She wrote Elsie Dinsmore in 1867. Elsie was a virtuous Christian girl who resisted small temptations. This book was enormously popular. Finley wrote 27 books about Elsie taking her through her adult life and ending with her as a grandmother. This series was popular in the United States and in Britain selling over 25,000,000 books.

When the Civil War finally ended, Elsie and her family came home in the South, coping with the major changes that the Reconstruction Era consorted throughout the times after the warfare. "Sweet is the image of the brooding dove! Holy as heaven a mother's tender love! The love of many prayers and many tears, Which changes not with dim declining years--The only love which, on this teeming earth, Asks no return for passion's wayward birth." - Mrs. Norton. A latest series of Elsie Dinsmore in 8 volumes was rendered and digested from the first one and issued by Zondervan/Mission City Press and entitled, Elsie Dinsmore: A Life of Faith. The articulation has been quite updated and the African American roles do not anymore communicate in vernacular. Martha Finley was a tutor and writer of many books, the best known is the 28-volume series of Elsie Dinsmore which was printed more than 38 years. his father was Presbyterian clergy Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Martha published most of her stories using the nom de plume Martha Farquharson. The series of Elsie Dinsmore consists of the following lists of books: Elsie Dinsmore; Elsie's Holidays at Roselands; Elsie's Girlhood; Elsie's Womanhood; Elsie's Motherhood; Elsie's Children; Elsie's Widowhood; Grandmother Elsie; Elsie's New Relations; Elsie at Nantucket; The Two Elsie's; Elsie's Kith and Kin; Elsie's Friends at Woodburn; Christmas with Grandma Elsie; Elsie and the Raymonds; Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds; Elsie's Vacation; Elsie at Viamede; Elsie at Ion; Elsie at the World's Fair; Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters; Elsie at Home; Elsie on the Hudson; Elsie in the South; Elsie's Young Folks; Elsie's Winter Trip; Elsie and Her Loved Ones; Elsie and Her Namesakes.