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Pioneer girl perspectives : exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
Title:
Pioneer girl perspectives : exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN:
9781941813089
Physical Description:
317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
General Note:
"A publication of the Pioneer Girl Project."
Contents:
Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder / Speech for the Detroit Book Fair, 1937 / The strange case of the bloody Benders: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and yellow journalism / "Raise a loud yell": Rose Wilder Lane, working writer / Pioneer girl: its roundabout path into print / Little myths on the prairie / Her stories take you with her: The lasting appeal of the Little house books / Laura Ingalls Wilder as a Midwestern pioneer girl / Women's place: Family, home, and farm / Fairy tale, folklore, and the little house in the deep dark woods / The myth of happy childhood (and other myths about frontiers, families, and growing up) / Frontier families and the little house where nobody dies
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Summary:
Laura Ingalls Wilder finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in 1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of books for young readers. Wilder's vision of life on the American frontier in the last half of the nineteenth century continues to draw new generations of readers to her Little House books. Editor Nancy Tystad Koupal has collected essays from noted scholars of Wilder's life and work that explore the themes and genesis of Wilder's writings. The collection sheds new light on the story behind Wilder's original manuscript and examines the ways in which the author and her daughter and editor, Rose Wilder Lane, worked to develop a marketable narrative. The essay contributors delve into the myths and realities of Wilder's work to discover the real lives of frontier children, the influence of time and place on both Wilder and Lane, and the role of folklore in the Little House novels. Together, the essays give readers a deeper understanding of how Wilder built and managed her story.
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