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Maud Hart Lovelace

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Maud Hart Lovelace


Born
in Mankato, Minnesota, The United States
April 25, 1892

Died
March 11, 1980

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Maud Hart Lovelace was an American writer best known for the beloved Betsy-Tacy series, which has remained a cornerstone of American children’s literature for generations. Born and raised in Mankato, Minnesota, she began writing at an early age and showed literary promise while still in high school. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she worked for the Minnesota Daily, and sold her first short story while recuperating in California, marking the start of her professional career. Lovelace initially wrote historical novels for adults, including The Black Angels and the successful Early Candlelight, before turning to children’s fiction inspired by stories she told her daughter. Beginning in the late 1930s, she created the Betsy-Tac ...more

Average rating: 4.21 · 99,390 ratings · 5,417 reviews · 45 distinct worksSimilar authors
Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

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4.09 avg rating — 25,293 ratings — published 1940 — 44 editions
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Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-T...

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4.18 avg rating — 11,632 ratings — published 1941 — 17 editions
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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the ...

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4.20 avg rating — 8,986 ratings — published 1942 — 9 editions
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Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown ...

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4.24 avg rating — 7,478 ratings — published 1943 — 30 editions
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Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy...

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4.31 avg rating — 6,235 ratings — published 1945 — 12 editions
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Betsy Was a Junior (Betsy-T...

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4.21 avg rating — 5,535 ratings — published 1947 — 11 editions
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Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy, #8)

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4.35 avg rating — 5,313 ratings — published 1948 — 8 editions
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Betsy and the Great World (...

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4.17 avg rating — 5,416 ratings — published 1952 — 10 editions
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Betsy in Spite of Herself (...

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4.28 avg rating — 5,259 ratings — published 1946 — 12 editions
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Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy...

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4.35 avg rating — 4,833 ratings — published 1955 — 10 editions
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Betsy-Tacy Betsy-Tacy and Tib Betsy and Tacy Go Over the ... Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown Heaven to Betsy Betsy in Spite of Herself Betsy Was a Junior
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“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

“Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself