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)