![]() ![]() Three other stories are set in the fictional Deep Valley, and all have a tangential link to Betsy. A good slice-of-life from the Edwardian period, with the added bonus of portraying female friendship as healthy, positive, and nurturing. The last six books take them through all four years of high school, follow Betsy on her Grand Tour of Europe right before the outbreak of WWI, and then follow all three young women into marriage on the eve of war. The first four books in the series chronicle the childhood of Betsy Ray, the Author Avatar and her two closest friends, Expys of Maud's best friends, from ages 5 to 12. ![]() The series begins in early 1899, and ends in the middle of 1917. Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series has a comparatively small, but extremely devoted, fanbase, complete with yearly conventions in Maud's hometown of Mankato, Minnesota. A historical, fictionalized autobiographical series, though far less well known than the Little House books. ![]()
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