Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1856. — 96 p. Ella hung up her bonnet and cloak in the hall, entered the school room, and went to her seat as softly as possible, in hope that the teacher would not notice her. Vain hope! "Ella Clinton!" he called out in his sternest tones, "come here to me." Trembling with fear she obeyed. "Do you know what time it is, miss?"...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1868. — 389 p. The hamlet of Casella stood on the heights of San Giovanni, its half-dozen cottages nestling picturesquely here and there among the rocks and trees. In one of them, the second as you climbed the ascent from the vale below, lived Hubert and Madalena Romano, with their aged mother and two sweet babes...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1896. — 344 p. A pious young girl has difficulty establishing a relationship with her worldly father who seems indifferent to her religious principles. The first of the Elsie Dinsmore novels.
New York: A.L. Burt, 1898. — 360 p. 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.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1872. — 382 p. As Elsie Dinsmore grows up and becomes a young woman, her family undergoes major changes. Her father, Horace Dinsmore, falls in love and marries sweet Rose Allison, whom Elsie has loved since childhood. Soon two new members, Horace Jr. and Rosebud, join the happy family. Elsie spends a summer with her eccentric Aunt Wealthy, where...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. — 363 p. In this fourth volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, readers celebrate with Elsie as she prepares to marry her beloved and move to her mother's childhood home in the Deep South. She matures in her faith as she seeks to share her religious convictions with those who work on the plantation.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. — 362 p. Happily married to Edward, Elsie takes great delight in her family. What will happen when they are confronted by a powerful adversary?
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. — 332 p. Pleasant times and new babies are mixed with dark secrets and deep sorrow. Will Elsie be strong in the Lord?
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908. — 344 p. The seventh in the Elsie Dinsmore series, this book begins with the death of Elsie's beloved husband. As Elsie learns to live in widowhood, the story shifts to the lives of those most precious to her — her children and extended family.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1882. — 310 p. When Elsie's daughter, young Elsie, hears that her beloved Lester has contracted typhoid fever overseas, she and her brother, Edward, go to Italy to nurse him back to health. When Lester recovers, the two are married, with only Edward and a few friends in attendance. On the return trip to America, Edward is reacquainted with the...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1911. — 336 p. 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...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1884. — 345 p. Ready to put aside her mourning clothes, Elsie spends an idyllic summer with her family in seaside cottages on Nantucket Island, where minor disturbances include a test of Lulu's obedience and of Zoe's faith and trust in God.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913. — 316 p. The feisty little Lulu learns some hard lessons about life, and Evelyn, fatherless niece of the younger Elsie, captures the hearts of all. Elsie and her family spend the winter at Viamede, the beautiful Louisiana plantation inherited from Elsie's late mother. While there, all of the children attend a nearby school. Hot-tempered...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. — 348 p. While the rest of the family winters at Viamede, Edward and Zoe tend to affairs at Ion and endure an unwelcome guest. Later, while on a business trip, Edward is injured in a train wreck, and the rest of the family returns from Viamede to be with him. At sea, Captain Raymond receives news of a financial windfall and resigns from the...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1887. — 345 p. Lulu presides over holiday celebrations as hostess at Woodburn and learns a lesson about Christian charity, and she and her extended family enjoy new additions, endure Captain Raymond's injury in a riding accident, and face a rattlesnake at Lulu's surprise birthday party.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1888. — 328 p. The young folks enjoy parties hosted at various homes during the holiday season, and even Grandma Elsie and the other adults join in the fun.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889. — 334 p. Edward and Zoe Travilla bring their twins to Grandma Elsie’s 50th birthday party. Captain Raymond takes Max and Lulu with him on a business trip to the West.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890. — 190 p. Max, the eldest son of Captain Levis Raymond (Elsie's son-in-law), has decided to follow in his father's footsteps and join the United States Navy. The summer before he is to enter as a cadet, Max travels out west with his sister Lulu and their father on a business trip to the land owned by the latter. They then join the rest of...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1891. — 213 p. While Max adjusts to life at the Naval Academy, his family continues their journey in The Dolphin. They explore Philadelphia and other historical sires, but when they arrive home, they learn that Grandma Elsie is ill and must have surgery. To aid in her recover, Elsie chooses to recuperate at Viamede, her family's Louisianna home....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1892. — 203 p. As the Dinsmores, Travillas, and Raymonds continue their stay at Viamede and Grandma Elsie regains her health, the entire family enjoys the outdoor pleasures of winter in the South. The family enjoys a festive gathering at cousin Betty Johnson's wedding in the North. As the Raymonds return to Woodburn, they stop to visit Max at the...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1893. — 203 p. Elsie and her cousin discover a long-lost cousin, while others in the family experience both hardships and joys as they learn to trust in God.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1894. — 174 p. Elsie Dinsmore, now a loving, matronly grandmother, accompanies family and friends on an extended yachting excursion from their southern plantation homes to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Arriving in the harbor of Chicago on July 2, they are in time to witness the great Independence Day celebration, which...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. — 177 p. Cousin Raymond and Annis depart for their honeymoon and the Dinsmores, Travillas and Raymonds travel on the Great Lakes onboard "The Dolphin." They learn about several historical events of interest in the area, including the surrender of Detroit and Perry's stunning naval victory at Put-in-Bay. While on Lake Erie, they are besieged...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1897. — 177 p. Brothers Arthur and Calhoun Conley become fathers, and Evelyn's mother, Laura Leland, who is very ill with consumption travels to Europe. Love is in the air at Ion. Rosie Travilla weds Will Croly in June, and Maude, Sidney, Lucilla and Grace act as bridesmaids. The two little Elsies - Elsie Raymond and Elsie Dinsmore - are flower...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898. — 236 p. Percy Landreth and Chester Dinsmore compete for Lulu's hand in marriage, but Chester places himself in harm's way to save her life.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. — 231 p. A doctor prescribes a winters rest in the South for Chester so he can fully recover from the injuries he incurred while protecting Lucilla. After Maxs graduation from the Naval Academy, Grandmother Elsie and the Raymonds travel on the Dolphin to Florida and on to Viamede, Elsies beloved Louisiana home. Max and Evelyn become...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. — 145 p. Following the destruction of the Maine in Havana Harbor and America's declaration of war on Spain, Max sails to meet the Spanish in the Philippines. Doctors Harold and Herbert Travilla volunteer as physicians to U.S. troops supporting the Cubans in their fight for independence. Upon return, Harold confesses his love for Gracie...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. — 148 p. Following their honeymoons, Lucilla and Evelyn set up housekeeping with their husbands, Chester and Max, in a new shared home, Sunnyside. The family enjoys a round of parties held in honor of the newlyweds. When Max returns to the navy, the rest of the family travels with Grandma Elsie during the cold months on board the Dolphin to...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. — 167 p. It is 1901 when Elsie and her family travel to California. During this time President McKinley is assassinated, the children learn stories about Revolutionary officers, a new baby joins the family, and they return home.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. — 154 p. Harold Travilla marries Gracie Raymond on New Year's Day, and the happy couple honeymoons at Viamede, Grandmother Elsie's Louisiana plantation. The rest of the family sails to join them, and along the way Grandmother Elsie and Captain Raymond regale the children with tales from Southern history, and Cousin Ronald entertains them...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1876. — 242 p. Sixteen years old Mildred Keith moves with her father, mother, and seven brothers and sisters from their home in Landsdale, Ohio, to the small riverside town of Pleasant Plains, Indiana. Mildred's maiden great aunt, Wealthy Stanhope, travels with them. A life very different from the one they had known awaits them on this new...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. — 239 p. Slow to recover from her bout with ague, Mildred joins her uncle, Arthur Dinsmore Sr., on a trip by rail and steamer to the Dinsmore home, Roselands, to take advantage of the southern climate. Mildred befriends the governess at Roselands and is befriended by sweet Violet Travilla, mistress of Ion and mother to Edward Travilla.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1881. — 205 p. As Mildred's stay at Roselands draws to a close, she is torn between her beloved home in frontier Indiana and her new found friends and family. She is now a beautiful young woman and must discourage the advances of two suitors, for she still loves Charlie Landreth. Elsie, now reunited with her father adn recovered from a life...
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1910. — 329 p. Mildred and Charlie Landreth, the proud parents of a baby boy, have settled into quiet domestic life. An invitation from cousins Horace and Elsie to visit the Oaks, near Roselands, brings Charlie, Mildred, and her youngest sister, Annis, to spend the winter in the sunny South. Family gatherings, studies, visits to Ion, daily walks,...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1884. — 214 p. The Landreths and Annis meet Aunt Wealthy in Philadelphia on their way home from the Oaks and complete their journey with her at their side. Mildred and Zillah, her sister, welcome daughters into their homes and learn much about raising children. Don and Rupert, Mildred's brothers, heed the call to Go West, young man!" When they...
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