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title: 'Elsie Dinsmore and More'
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author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2020-09-25
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2020-elsie-dinsmore-and-more
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# Elsie Dinsmore and More

Best-known as the author of the **Elsie Dinsmore** series for young readers, [Martha Farquharson Finley](/authors/martha-farquharson-finley) (1828-1909) was raised as a Presbyterian, and also wrote over 50 volumes for the Presbyterian Board of Publication and the Presbyterian Publishing Committee. She was related to both [Samuel Finley](/authors/samuel-finley), President of Princeton, and the Scottish Covenanter John Brown of Priesthill. Religious themes dominated her writing, and the amount of literature she produced — mostly written for children, but not always so — was prodigious. We are still adding her works to Log College Press, but we wanted to alert our readers to what’s available here:

- All 28 volumes of the Elsie Dinsmore series (spanning her life starting when she became a Christian as a young girl);
- All 7 volumes of the Mildred Keith series (Mildred was a second cousin of Elsie);
- Historical fiction about the Scottish Covenanters (*Annandale, A Story of the Times of the Covenanters*) and the Waldensians (*Casella, or, The Children of the Valleys*); and
- Novels such as *Wanted — A Pedigree, Signing the Contract*, and *The Thorn in the Nest*.

Elsie Dinsmore is still popular today among young Christian readers. All of her stories are here to read, but there is much more. Take a look at [her page](/authors/martha-farquharson-finley), and explore her writings for the young and old(er). She combined engaging stories with Christian principles, and readers will be edified as well as entertained.