Between 1937 and 1938, Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter were immersed in the most editorially incestuous phase of their relationship. Swapping stories, borrowing from each other in ways that left no boundaries between their lives and their writing, they were eradicating any line between them. Economically, their parallel projects would be a success. But emotionally, their tensions, frustrations, and undigested disappointments would destroy much of the remaining bond between them.
