Caroline Fraser
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“She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.”
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“But as adults, we have come to see that her autobiographical novels were not only fictionalized but brilliantly edited, in a profound act of American myth-making and self-transformation. As unpublished manuscripts, letters, and documents have come to light, we have begun to apprehend the scope of her life, a story that needs to be fully told, in its historical context, as she lived it. That tale is different from the one she wrote. It is an adult story of poverty, struggle, and reinvention—a great American drama in three acts.”
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“After her first book was successful and she received pleas from children around the country to continue the story, she said, I began to think what a wonderful childhood I had had. How I had seen the whole frontier, the woods, the Indian country of the great plains, the frontier towns, the building of railroads in wild, unsettled country, homesteading and farmers coming in to take possession. I realized that I had seen and lived it all—all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman, then the pioneer, then the farmers and the towns. Then I understood that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. That the frontier was gone, and agricultural settlements had taken its place when I married a farmer. It seemed to me that my childhood had been much richer and more interesting than that of children today, even with all the modern inventions and improvements.”
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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