Title: Elsie's Holidays at Roselands
First published: 1889
Description: Eight-year-old Elsie believes that obeying a request her father has made would violate her conscience, and she must refuse him. He, in turn, believes Elsie is being willful and disobedient, failing to see her refusal as a matter of her deep, abiding faith in God.
Subjects: Christian life, Family life, Fiction, History, Family, Elsie Dinsmore (Fictitious character), Juvenile fiction, Fathers and daughters, Religious fiction, Domestic fiction, Families, Children's fiction, Women, fiction
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: CPB Box no. 1860 vol. 12