Mildred's Boys and Girls: Book 6
Martha Finley
As clouds of civil war gather, the Landreths take in a family of fugitive slaves and are heartbroken when they cannot, because of the Fugitive Slave Law, prevent the couple and their young son from being forcibly returned to their owner. With the fall of Fort Sumter, patriotic fervor sweeps Pleasant Plains, and the Keiths, Landreths, and Ormsbys all rush to do their part for the Union, knowing that friends and family elsewhere support the opposing cause.
As the conflict progresses, Don and Rupert are captured, but by the grace of God they survive the horrors of Confederate prison camps. After years of worry and concern for friends and loved ones, the family is overjoyed when the war ends but saddened by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Percy and Stewart leave home to attend college, and the family beings to settle back into the life it had long known in Pleasant Plains.
| MISS MARTHA FINLEY was born on April 26, 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio to an affluent and patriotic family. Her first decade was spent living in different towns of Ohio and Indiana with her parents, Dr. James Brown Finley and Maria Theresa Brown, while educated at home and in private schools in varying cities.
In 1853, after the death of her parents, Miss Finley moved to New York, and later to Philadelphia. She became a private educator and taught students in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, and until 1874, she lived between both New York and Philadelphia. When her school was destroyed during the war, she moved to Bedford, Pennsylvania, living with an aunt and sister. While in Philadelphia in 1876, at the Centennial Exposition, she visited relatives in Elkton, Maryland. With the onset of poor health and the advice of her physician residing there, she decided to make Elkton her home. Miss Finley, at age 26, began her literary career writing a newspaper article and Sunday School Stories for a Presbyterian publication. After becoming dependant upon others because of poor health, she prayed for a means to support herself. After three years of writing, her first book, Elsie Dinsmore, was published. Young readers demanded more, causing Miss Finley to comply, until there were 28 books in the series. An invalid for many years, Miss Finley wrote many of her books while prostrated with illness. A simple, pleasant woman with delicate features, never married and childless, Miss Finley was one of the most beloved authors, by children, of all time, with over 25 million readers in both America and England. She lived and wrote quietly until her death in Elkton, Maryland in 1909.--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. |
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