Maud Hart Lovelace

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born

December 13, 1901 in Mankato, MN, The United States

died

March 11, 1980

gender

female

genre

Children's Books, History, Literature & Fiction

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Maud Hart Lovelace was born on April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota. She was the middle of three children born to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. Her sister, Kathleen, was three years older, and her other sister, Helen, was six years younger. “That dear family" was the model for the fictional Ray family.

Maud’s birthplace was a small house on a hilly residential street several blocks above Mankato’s center business district. The street, Center Street, dead-ended at one of the town’s many hills. When Maud was a few months old, the Hart family moved two blocks up the street to 333 Center.

Shortly before Maud’s fifth birthday a “large merry Irish family" moved into the house directly across the street. Among its many children was a girl Maud’...more

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Books by Maud Hart Lovelace

Average rating: 4.26 · 19,913 ratings · 1,292 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 4,451 ratings — published 1940 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 2,169 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Betsy-Tacy, #3) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 1,796 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy, #5) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 1,500 ratings — published 1945 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Betsy-Tacy, #4) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 1,547 ratings — published 1943 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy, #8) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator) 4.39 avg rating — 1,274 ratings — published 1948 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy, #6) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 1,186 ratings — published 1946 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy, #10) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 1,163 ratings — published 1955 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Betsy Was a Junior (Betsy-Tacy, #7) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator), Vera N. Diane (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 1,160 ratings — published 1947 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy, #9) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 1,087 ratings — published 1952 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy-Tacy (10 books)
by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator), Vera N. Diane (Illustrator)

4.26 avg rating — 17,329 ratings

Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace

“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

37 people liked it

“People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe

29 people liked it

“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

tags: journals , writing

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