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Enter the character-building Christ-centered world of Elsie Dinsmore. These 19th-century fictional chronicles of a beautiful young heiress in the post-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. The story of the next generation of the Travilla family is continued in Hendrickson Publisher's exclusive reprints of original editions. Each book features a new custom cover illustration.As another summer season at the shore draws to a close, the Raymonds again face a long-dreaded separation. It is time for the captain to take his ship to sea once more.Elsie grows accustomed to her new-found role as "Grandma" to Max, Lulu, and Gracie. Soon Elsie's daughter, Elsie, and Lester Leland's new baby, Edward, is born. In the fall and winter months that follow, Max, Lulu, and Gracie each learn valuable lessons about good character and obedience.Soon spring arrives. Violet gives birth to a daughter, another Elsie, and Captain Raymond returns home safely to be with his burgeoning family once again.

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It is late in the afternoon of a delicious October day; the woods back of the two cottages where the Dinsmores, Travillas and Raymonds have spent the last three or four months are gorgeous with scarlet, crimson and gold; the air from the sea is more delightful than ever, but the summer visitors to the neighboring cottages and hotels have fled, and the beach is almost deserted, as Edward and his child-wife wander slowly along it, hand in hand, their attention divided between the splendors of a magnificent sunset and the changing beauty of the sea; yonder away in the distance it is pale gray; near at hand delicate green slowly changing to pink, each wave crested with snowy foam, and anon they all turn to burnished gold.

Martha Finley (1828-1909) who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Martha Farquharson, was the author of Black Steve (1865), Elsie Dinsmore (1867), Casella (1869), Holidays at Roselands (1873), Elsie's Girlhood (1873), Elsie's Womanhood (1875), Elsie's Motherhood (1876), Elsie's Children (1877), Grandmother Elsie (1882), Elsie's New Relations (|1883), Elsie at Nantucket (1884), The Two Elsies (1885), Elsie at Home (1887), Elsie's Kith and Kin (1889), Christmas with Grandma Elsie (1889), Elsie and the Raymonds (1890), Elsie's Vacation and After Events (1891), Elsie at Viamede (1892), Elsie at Ion (1893), and Elsie at the World's Fair (1894).

Full of familial ups and downs! Elsie's New Relations finds a houseful at Ion. Rosie, Lester and Elsie Leland, Edward and Zoe Travilla, and Violet Raymond with her husband's three children - Max, Lulu, and Gracie - are living under one roof with Grandma Elsie and Grandpa Dinsmore. Edward and Zoe undergo their share of trials in their young marriage. The beautiful Miss Deanne causes trouble for Zoe and ensuing struggles with jealousy. Life is full for the Raymond children; lessons and plenty of outdoor exercise make each day busy. But not quite busy enough...for each struggles to live up to the expectations for their obedience. Max is unduly influenced by his older cousin Ralph, who introduces him to gambling and smoking. Lulu and Gracie have their own trials as well. But through these difficulties all the characters draw closer to one another and to their Savior. And the ending adds a new relation to the clan!

As another summer at the shore draws to a close, the Raymonds again face a long-dreaded separation. It is time for the captain to return to sea. Elsie grows accustomed to her new found role as ''Grandma'' to Max, Lulu, and Gracie. Soon Elsie's daughter, Elsie, and Lester's new baby, Edward, is born. In the months that follow, all grandchildren learn valuable lessons about character and obedience. Soon spring arrives. Violet gives birth to a daughter, another Elsie, and the Captain returns home safely to be with his growing family. Elsie's New Relations is the ninth book in the original, unabridged nineteenth century Martha Finley classic, the Elsie Dinsmore Series. These books are best when read in order.