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Laura's Rose: The Story of Rose Wilder Lane (1976) The Horn Book's Laura Ingalls Wilder: articles about and by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams, and the Little House Books (Boston: Horn Book, 1987), edited by Anderson, 48 pp., LCCN 87-181392; The Walnut Grove Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1987) Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story (1990)
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson , Lane is one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement .
Free Land is a novel by Rose Wilder Lane that features American homesteading during the 1880s in what is now South Dakota. It was published in The Saturday Evening Post as a serial during March and April 1938 [4] and then published as a book by Longmans. [1] [3]
It provides a detailed, daily description of the family's migration and includes commentary by Rose ("a setting by Rose Wilder Lane"). [1] It was published in 1962, after Laura's death, by Harper & Bros., who had published her Little House series of novels. It is sometimes considered part of the series, which is narrowly a series of eight ...
Wilder had been sent to San Francisco to write about the 1915 World's Fair and she visited Rose, who lived in that city, when she was 48 years old and Rose 28. West from Home is sometimes considered part of the Little House series , which is narrowly a series of nine autobiographical children's novels based on Wilder's life from about 1870 to ...
Despite book sales being reduced due to the economic situation, the strength over adversity theme of the book sold well to a Depression-weary public and it has remained in print to this day. Its medium length and straightforward style was also well-suited for the young adult market and the book became a mainstay in high school and public ...
In 1874, when Wilder was seven years old, the family left their home near Pepin for the second time, and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota.Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books (although it is the only town she did not mention by name) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s ...
The news Wilder hears near the end of the book, that "Nellie has gone back East", refers to Genevieve Masters. Wilder’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, helped write, revise, and publish the Little House series. The extent of Lane's role in her mother's Little House book series has remained unclear. [5]