Mildred at Home: Book 5
Martha Finley
Mildred and her loving husband, Charlie Landreth, return to Pleasant Plains with Mildred's sister Annis and Aunt Wealthy in tow and are challenged by the impending departure of sister Ada to the mission field. Sister Zillah learns much about raising children from watching Mildred's tender but firm approach with young Percy. While at the Oaks, Mildred's cousin Elsie Dinsmore and brother Horace learn their own lessons in obedience.
After Mildred's brothers Don and Rupert strike out for the western gold fields to seek their destinies, they are reported dead after an Indian attack. The family mourns their likely loss but rejoices in the knowledge that the young men are now in a far better place with the Lord. Unexpected visitors bring boy joy and surprises to the Keiths and Landreths.
| 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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