Elsie's Motherhood
Martha FINLEY (1828 - 1909)
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions, Sept. 3, 2017)
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.