Elsie Dinsmore - Elsie's Childhood Friends

Elsie's Childhood Friends

In the first two books Elsie plays with and visits several friends and neighbors and their children. Most of them had died by the time Christmas with Grandma Elsie was written. Herbert died of a broken heart when Elsie rejected his marriage proposal.

  • Herbert Carrington
  • Lucy Carrington Ross
  • Mary Leslie
  • Flora Arnett
  • Caroline (Cary) Howard
  • Mildred Keith
  • Sophie Allison
  • Isabel Carleton

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