![]() ![]() Aunt Frances will have to devote all of her attention to her mother, so she arranges for Elizabeth Ann to live with relatives in the same city. Great-aunt Harriet develops a cough, and the doctor says she must be sent to a warmer, drier climate. She tells Elizabeth Ann about her distant relatives, including the dreaded Putney cousins in Vermont. Aunt Frances is a doting character, so doting that she nearly smothers the little girl in love and affection. Both of her parents have died, and she’s been reared by dear Aunt Frances for almost all of her nine years. It tells the story of Elizabeth Ann, a little girl living with aunts in a Midwestern city. It has sat on a bookshelf, unread, for almost 20 years. I remembered the story, and into my shopping cart it went. Louis’s book fairs, looking for old editions of The Hardy Boys, when I spotted an old edition of Understood Betsy. She gave away books she finished reading, and I was often the happy recipient.Īlmost 40 years later, I was at one of St. It might have come from the neighbor next door, two years older and a prolific reader. I was eight or nine years old, and I seem to recall a Scholastic Book Club edition. I don’t remember exactly when I first read Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. ![]()
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