Dedications in the Books

Who were these people?

  • Betsy-Tacy -- Bick and Merian (Tacy and Bettina)

  • Betsy-Tacy and Tib -- Midge and Joan (Tib and Tib's niece)

  • Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill -- Kathleen and Tess (Julia and Katie)

  • Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown -- Helen (Margaret)

  • Heaven to Betsy -- Tom and Stella (Bob and Jule)

  • Betsy in Spite of Herself -- Rosemond and Romie Lundquist (Maud's cousins)

  • Betsy Was a Junior -- Bick, Tess, Midge, Marion, El, Connie, Mil, Pat and Ruth (The Okto Deltas plus Hazel)

  • Betsy and Joe -- Delos (Joe)

  • Betsy and the Great World -- Elizabeth Leslie (one of Maud's best friends from Garden City, Long Island, where Maud and Delos were living when all the B-T books were written except for Betsy's Wedding. She was an architect and a very good hobby painter and did wonderful portraits of Merian and Delos.)

  • Emily of Deep Valley -- Elizabeth Riley (Maud's editor for all of the B-T books)

  • Carney's House Party -- Bill and Ted (Sam Hutchinson (Carney's husband) and their oldest son, who died in WWII)

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