Series by Martha Finley

Elsie Dinsmore

  1. Elsie Dinsmore (1867)
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  2. Holidays at Roselands (1868)
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  3. Elsie's girlhood (1872)
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  4. Elsie's womanhood (1875)
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  5. Elsie's motherhood (1876)
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  6. Elsie's children (1877)
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  7. Elsie's widowhood (1880)
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  8. Grandmother Elsie (1882)
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  9. Elsie's new relations: What they did and how they fared at Ion (1883)
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  10. Elsie at Nantucket (1884)
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  11. The two Elsies (1885)
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  12. Elsie's kith and kin (1886)
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  13. Elsie's friends at Woodburn (1887)
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  14. Christmas with Grandma Elsie (1888)
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  15. Elsie and the Raymonds (1889)
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  16. Elsie yachting with the Raymonds (1890)
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  17. Elsie's vacation and after events (1891)
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  18. Elsie at Viamede (1892)
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  19. Elsie at Ion (1893)
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  20. Elsie at the World's Fair (1894)
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  21. Elsie's journey on inland waters (1895)
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  22. Elsie at home (1897)
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  23. Elsie on the Hudson and elsewhere (1898)
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  24. Elsie in the South (1899)
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  25. Elsie's young folks in peace and war (1900)
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  26. Elsie's winter trip (1902)
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  27. Elsie and her loved ones (1903)
      Online at Internet Archive
  28. Elsie and her namesakes (1905)
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Mildred Keith

Frontispiece: Mildred and Elsie
  1. Mildred Keith (1876)
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  2. Mildred at Roselands (1880)
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  3. Mildred and Elsie (1881)
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  4. Mildred's married life, and a winter with Elsie Dinsmore (1882)
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  5. Mildred's boys and girls (1886)
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  6. Mildred's new daughter (1894)
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Although she is best known for her girls' series, Finley published at least one series for tots and another for boys under her Martha Farquharson pseudonym. Both were issued by the Presbyterian Board of Publication:

Pewit's Nest Series
  1. Pewit's Nest
  2. Harry's Fourth of July
  3. Harry's Ride
  4. Harry's Walks
  5. Harry's Little Sister
  6. Harry's Christmas
  7. Harry and His Chickens
  8. Aunt Kitty's Fowls
  9. Harry's Grandma
  10. Rose and Robbie
  11. Harry at Aunt Jane's
  12. Harry and His Cousins
Honest Jim
  1. Honest Jim
  2. Contented Jim
  3. How Jim Did It
  4. The Twin Babies
  5. Noll, the Beggar Boy
  6. Noll in the Country

The Presbyterian Board of Publication also issued two "libraries" -- i.e., unrelated titles in a boxed set -- each consisting entirely of works by Finley (as Farquharson):

Do-Good Library
  1. Anna Hand
  2. Grandma Foster's Sunbeam
  3. Little Patience
  4. Little Helper
  5. Little Dick Positive
  6. Loitering Linus
  7. Maud's Two Homes
  8. Milly
  9. Stupid Sally

Little Books for Little Readers
  1. The White Dress
  2. The Broken Basket
  3. Jamie by the Lake
  4. Bertie Page
  5. Amy and Her Kitten
  6. Jane Hart
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