Elsie Dinsmore
By: Martha Finley ; with a preface for the Garland edition by Barbara Parry.
Series: Classics of children's literature, 1621-1932
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Christian life -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Family life -- Southern States -- Fiction.; Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Description: Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.
Notes: Bibliography: p. x-xii.
Reprint of the ed. published by M. W. Dodd, New York.
The first of the Elsie Dinsmore novels.