And there, with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Abigail and Cousin Ann, she grows strong and well and happy and, most importantly, learns to think for herself, and truly becomes Understood Betsy. as though they had been hired men!" But to the Putney cousins in Vermont Elizabeth Ann has to go.
All of my kids, aged 3-12 loved this story. The setting is around 1900 and the risk-averse Aunt Francis, because of other duties, has to put little Betsy under the care of the gauche farmer cousins. No, I shall never forget it! They had chores to do. Understood Betsy shows us a little girl who grows up to enjoy learning, become curious, act with courage and love work.
When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill, poor little Elizabeth Ann is sent to live with the much-feared Putney cousins, whom, as Great-Aunt Harriet said "Such lack of sympathy, such perfect indifference to the sacred sensitiveness of child-life, such a starving of the child-heart. Download cover art Download CD case insert Understood Betsy (version 2)Įlizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet.
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