Betsy’s House has been restored and furnished as a museum to look just as it did when the Hart family lived there from 1892-1906. In an effort to preserve literary landmarks, the Betsy-Tacy Society purchased Maud’s childhood home (Betsy’s House - 333 Center Street) and the home of her lifelong best friend, Frances Kenney Kirch (Tacy‘s House - 332 Center Street) for future generations to enjoy. With more than one million and a half books sold, the series has drawn national, as well as international, attention to Mankato. The Betsy-Tacy books are “historical fiction” based on the author’s childhood memories of growing up in Mankato, Minn. Maud Hart Lovelace (MHL) was born in Mankato in 1892 and is best known for her beloved series of Betsy-Tacy books, as well as adult fiction. Just give us a call or stop by the information desk.To promote and preserve Maud Hart Lovelace's legacy and Betsy-Tacy historic literary landmarks These can be requested and sent here just for you and/or your own special girl. Morgan Hill Library doesn’t currently own all the Betsy-Tacy’s (they go in and out of print) but we do have a complete set throughout our the library system. There are speakers and tours of Betsy and Tacy’s real homes. There is also an enthusiastic Betsy-Tacy Society, whose members celebrate yearly in Maud Lovelace’s Mankato, Minn. What better advice could our own young girls and women receive? As Anna Quindlen also writes, Betsy’s “greatest sin, throughout the books, is to undervalue herself.” All through the series, her best accomplishments are always when she stays true to herself. For they are really books about character and believing in yourself. The books, based on the author’s real life around the turn of the 20th century, follow the three friends on into college and marriage, each taking her own path into adulthood.Īnd, just as when they were written, they have much to say to girls at the turn of this century. It was Tacy.” Tacy, who remains a source of calm assurance to the adventurous, high-spirited Betsy, contrasts with the very literal Tib – “but Betsy and Tacy liked her just the same.” The series of 10 books opens in 1897 with Betsy’s fifth birthday party, where “the nicest present she received was not the usual kind of present. What a wonderful world it was!”Ĭolumnist Anna Quindlen writes in a foreword, “Could there be better books, and could there be a better girl, adolescent, young woman, to teach us all those things about choices (in life)?” Besides the opening quote from hard-boiled mystery writer, Laura Lippman, singer Bette Midler enthused, “I read every one of these … books twice.
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