Martha Finley

Titles in Young Readers category:

• Elsie at Nantucket

  Three years ago I spent some six weeks on Nantucket Island, making the town of the same name my headquarters, but visiting other points of interest, to which I take the characters of my story; so that in describing the pleasures of a sojourn there during our heated term, I write from expe ...

• Elsie at the World's Fair    

  Hugh Lilburn was very urgent with his betrothed for a speedy marriage, pleading that as her brother had robbed him and his father of their expected housekeeper--his cousin Marian--he could not long do without the wife who was to supply her place. Her sisters, Isadore and Virginia, who had ...

• Elsie Dinsmore    

     "I never saw an eye so bright,
       And yet so soft as hers;
     It sometimes swam in liquid light,
       And sometimes swam in tears;
     It seemed a beauty set apart
       For softness and for sighs."
                                   --MRS. WELBY.

• Elsie's Children    

      "Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth,
       What joy is welcom'd like a new-born child."
                                       --MRS. NORTON.

• Elsie's Girlhood    

  Some years have now elapsed since my little heroine "Elsie Dinsmore" made her debut into the great world. She was sent out with many an anxious thought regarding the reception that might await her there. But she was kindly welcomed, and such has been the favor shown her ever since ...

• Elsie's Kith and Kin

  "O married love! each heart shall own;
    Where two congenial souls unite,
  Thy golden chains inlaid with down,
    Thy lamp with heaven's own splendor bright."
  LANGHORNE.

• Elsie's Motherhood

  In compliance with the expressed desire of many of Elsie's friends and admirers, the story of her life is continued in this, the fifth volume of the series.

• Elsie's New Relations

      "For wild, or calm, or far or near,
       I love thee still, thou glorious sea."
                        --Mrs. Hemans.
  
      "I bless thee for kind looks and words
        Shower'd on my path like dew,
       For all the love in those deep eyes,
        A gladness ever new."
            

• Elsie's Womanhood    

  The call for a sequel to "Elsie's Girlhood" having become too loud and importunate to be resisted, the pleasant task of writing it was undertaken.

• Grandmother Elsie

      "Every state,
       Allotted to the race of man below,
       Is in proportion, doom'd to taste some sorrow."
                                      --Rowe.

• Holidays at Roselands

  "Oh Truth,
  Thou art, whilst tenant in a noble breast,
  A crown of crystal in an iv'ry chest."

• Two Elsies, The    

  "Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
    And our hearts, though stout and brave,
  Still, like muffled drums, are beating
    Funeral marches to the grave."
  
  LONGFELLOW.