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Martha Finley

Elsie at HomeMartha Finley Elsie at Home CHAPTER I The shades of evening were closing in upon a stormy March day; rain and sleet falling fast while a blustering northeast wind sent them sweeping across the desolate-looking fields and gardens, and over the wet road where a hack was lumbering along...

Elsie Yachting with the RaymondsMartha Finley Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds PREFATORY NOTEThe Author, having received many letters from young and interested readers, has decided to acknowledge them in this way, because feeble health and much work for the publishers make it impossible to write ...

Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends.Martha Finley Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends Chapter First "A word spoken in due season, how good is it!" – Prov. 15:23. "I'm to be dressed in white, mammy, with blue sash and ribbons, papa says, and ...

Ella Clinton; or, By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know ThemMartha Finley Ella Clinton; or, By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them CHAPTER I "Ella, you are the most provoking child that ever was born. You can never let a thing alone, but must have your fingers in everything. You've no more idea of neatness t...

Elsie and Her NamesakesMartha Finley Elsie and Her Namesakes CHAPTER I Things were going on blithely at Woodburn, everybody deeply interested in the preparations for the approaching wedding, as were all the relatives and connections on the neighboring estates and those on more southern plantation...

Christmas with Grandma ElsieMartha Finley Christmas with Grandma Elsie CHAPTER I It was about the middle of November. There had been a long rain storm, ending in sleet and snow, and now the sun was shining brightly on a landscape sheeted with ice: walks and roads were slippery with it, every tree...

The Thorn in the NestMartha Finley The Thorn in the Nest CHAPTER I "A maladyPreys on my heart, that medicine cannot reach." Our story opens in spring of 1797, in a sequestered valley in Western Pennsylvania. On a green hillside dotted here and there with stately oaks and elms, and sloping toward ...

The Two ElsiesMartha Finley The Two Elsies / A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket CHAPTER I "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.It was a lovely summer morning, glorious with sunlight,...

Mildred and ElsieMartha Finley Mildred and Elsie "Through suffering and sorrow thou hast pass'd,To show us what a woman true may be." — J. R. Lowell. "A lovely being scarcely form'd or moulded,A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded." — Byron.CHAPTER I "'Tis beautiful when first the dewy l...

Elsie at NantucketMartha Finley Elsie at Nantucket PREFACE 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 sojo...