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Sallie Ketcham

Autor(a) de Bach's Big Adventure

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Although many books have been written about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her life and writing, Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie by Sallie Ketcham has a different approach. Ms. Ketcham wrote about the lives of the Ingalls and later the Wilders in periods of decades for the first four chapters, 1860s through 1890s, then about Laura's writing life -- 1911 to 1943, and a final short chapter concerning her last years and the influence of Laura's writings after her death. Ms. Ketcham related other events which were occurring during the periods discussed, and how they related to the Ingalls' lives. The chapter concerning Laura's writing begins in 1911 when Laura became a farm journalist. Ms. Ketcham discusses the tension between Laura and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, concerning the writing of the Little House Books and several novels Rose wrote using Laura's unpublished autobiography as a basis.

The book is divided into two sections: (1) Laura's life and writings and (2) Excerpts from documents about Laura's writing and its influence. Ms. Ketcham addresses the questions concerning the use of Laura's Little House books in schools today; Little House on the Prairie is especially racist.

The weakest point about the book is that whenever Ms. Ketcham referred to Laura's autobiography, Pioneer Girl, it was to a manuscript copy housed in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library where a large collection of Rose Wilder Lane's materials are housed -- not the annotated edition, edited by Pamela Smith Hill and published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press in 2014. However, Ms. Ketcham's book was published this year (2015), and would have been probably been researched prior to the publication of the annotated autobiography.

Also, although Ms. Ketcham occasionally describes photographs, no illustrations appear in her book.

A well researched and interesting book about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Ingalls and to a lesser extent, Wilder families.
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sallylou61 | Nov 23, 2015 |

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Obras
3
Membros
131
Popularidade
#154,467
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
1
ISBN
8

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