Elsie Dinsmore Author:Martha Finley Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.
The character, Elsie Dinsmore, has a strong moral and Godly nature about her. Biblical principles permeate throughout the whole book which was written in 1867.