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Bibliography: Elsie Dinsmore by Finley, Martha
- Title
- Elsie Dinsmore
- Author
- Finley, Martha
- Date
- Genre
- fiction
- Note Source
- "The Hundred Worst Books and They That Wrote Them"
- Note Relating to Cather
- "There can be but a narrow enough future for a mind brought up upon the priggish distortions of the "Elsie books," weaned upon translations from Mrs. Marlitt [pen name for Eugenie John], and finally graduated into the pseudo-historical novels with which our presses are groaning and of which our public libraries keep thirty copies in circulation at a time."
