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Pioneer girl manuscript

Quite illuminating. A lot of what was left out of the children's books were subjects that at least back at the time when the books were published, were subjects considered to be "not appropriate" for children, such as divorce one of Laura's aunts was divorced , Laura being nearly molested at the age of 13 Laura was staying with another family at the time to help the mother with her housework and other children , and a neighbor having a baby out of wedlock.

It contains one hundred and twenty-five images, eight fully researched maps, and hundreds of annotations based on numerous primary sources, including census data, county, state, and federal records, and newspapers of the period. It is easy to see where the Little House books came from--how this manuscript developed into the stories we know and love today.

More importantly, it made me appreciate how much more successful the fictionalized versions are, literarily. The book was so thoroughly researched that each person mentioned in "Pioneer Girl" is also given a back story and a brief summary of their life after their mention in the narrative if known. Out of 8. Almanzo calls Laura "Bessie" because he doesn't like the name Laura he also had a sister named Laura , and her middle name is Elizabeth.

My favorite part of Pioneer Girl was reading about Laura and Almanzo's courtship; not nearly as drama filled as depicted in the TV series, but it was very sweet and realistic. With the encouragement of her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, Wilder began writing down all her memories and putting them in book form. Pioneer Girl has not just been shoved out as an afterthought or worse a gimmicky publicity stunt - Pamela Smith Hill has done a masterful job in editing and annotating this to bring Laura's story to a new level, a new audience and a whole new understanding of Laura herself.

And, yes, I loved every minute of it! The Pioneer Girl annotated edition was fascinating to read. There seem to be two intentions here. I am a huge LIW fan. But even that was more money than I should have spent on this. So, it is kind of depressing to end up as disappointed as I was with it. Further, there are strong arguments suggesting that Lane had a larger hand in the writing than this edition of Pioneer Girl acknowledges.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to find out what was real and what was not.

Pioneer girl: the revised texts

After so many articles about Rose and the fictional elements of the Little House books, it was really a pleasure to read the original text. I had heard a couple of years ago that Cap Garland had been killed in his early twenties in a machinery accident, but I never even knew much of what happened to Laura's sisters after the books.

Oddly enough, my Grandma has written a few things about her childhood and early life and tonally speaking, I do find her writing reminiscent of Wilder. But when you take into account the beauty of the physical book itself, the meticulous and almost obsessive research that adds so much to our understanding of Wilder's progression as a writer, it is elevated to a full five-star accomplishment.

And it's bizarre to learn here that Laura Ingalls Wilder herself never went back to The Little House, even though she and Rose tried when she was researching and writing The Little House on the Prairie. More reviews and ratings. Yet still, I had to laugh along with Rose when Hill explained that the publishers rejected Wilder's initial title of The Hard Winter as 'too depressing' for young readers - as Lane exclaimed incredulously, if people were depressed by the title, how on earth did they expect to get through the book?

I would recommend this to every single Little House fan. Being a fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder seems to be regarded as akin to liking The Archers, knitting and other grannyish pursuits i. The books in the series are literature. Pamela Smith Hill. But that's almost what makes it so intriguing. I read the manuscript as I usually would, using the annotations as a helpful guide only when I had more questions or wished to learn more about a particular topic.