Talk:Elsie Dinsmore

Adapted version?
"An adapted version has been published, but leaves out several important facts and details" -- could someone clarify this? Cactus Wren (talk) 11:04, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Social issues
The first book is set in the US South, during slavery times. A major character, "Aunt Chloe," is much loved; she contributes a great deal to Elsie's character development. In a later book the reader (and Elsie) learn that before she helped to raise Elsie, Chloe's former plantation life was a married life, in which her "unruly Negro" husband was owned (and then sold away) by another plantation. Their children, Elsie's Papa tells her, all died. Elsie accepts all of this with no comment, focusing on her blood family relations' problems. Her believed "Mammy" (and surrogate mother) Chloe is thus less well-understood by her (and the reader) than she might be. ~SH~

70.15.67.76 (talk) 22:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 14:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)