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They should find a " Lost Sequel" , make up a controversial book upending the Little House literary world like they did with that fake sequel to " To Kill A Mocking Bird". Have Laura secretly profess love for a black man, or maybe have a gay love affair with Nellie Olson.
It's not a rumor. She did quite extensive editing on Laura's manuscripts. Some people actually credit the books more to her than to her mother.
The book "The Ghost In The Little House" makes an excellent argument for this. However, if you compare Rose Wilder Lane's literary style in "Let The Hurricane Roar" and Laura's in "The Little House" books, they are entirely different. I think Rose edited the subject matter of Laura's books, and how the experiences were told, not the style in which she told it. If you read some of Laura's Missouri Ruralist articles in her column "How a Farm Woman Thinks") you can see the similarity (at least I can).
I don't think the books would have existed as they are without the collaboration.
My biggest gripe (off topic, I know). Michael Landon's hijacking of the stories. Albert...was he REALLY necessary????
Kinda makes me sad because I’m a huge fan of her books and I read them all as a kid.
But, I’m not a Native American, so....
That would have been your opinion, too, had you grown up in that era.
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All they did was change the name of an award, people.
Overreaction, much?
What an excellent example of shallow thinking.
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She did go away to college, supposedly to learn to be more independent. Laura's teaching income all went toward that effort. But she does seem to have returned home afterward. Hard to judge - I have no idea what the standard was at the time. Having a blind woman going away to school seems pretty progressive in itself.
I loved the books as a kid and am still fascinated by the family.
I had no idea she was blind. I only watched the first two seasons of the TV series, and then was too busy with high school life to watch the rest of it.
I never read the books, either. I have zero interest in the American West, and even less interest in the 19th Century.
Given the apparent racist overtones of the books, I think they should be "re-imagined" in a more proper light. How about "Little Plantation On The Prairie" where the family is revealed as abusive slaveholders
Even in her own lifetime Wilder apologised for her thoughtlessness and amended a line in Little House on the Prairie that said Kansas had ‘no people, only Indians’. It now reads, ‘no settlers, only Indians’.”
I get it, and I’m a fan of her books.
But again, I’m not an Indian, so I can’t assert myself in the argument between her legacy and the Native American community.
I think they should have kept the name. Wilder accurately depicted the feelings of people at the time. She did not write “fake news” stories. I would also support foot notes that explain to children the context of racial statements.
A sensible approach -- and one that can be adapted as more facts are brought to light.
But the Politically SJW clique wants no part of this: their only goal is power, in order to force their views on the rest of us.
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Even when Laura was a kid, there were practices and viewpoints that by today's standards would be racist or sexist. I don't know if "they were a product of their time" is a good reasoning for such acts. However, it certain doesn't help when modern SJW views try to present modern values/behaviors on people from so long ago.
For crying out loud are we going to start burning ancient texts soon? Race is too ultrasensitive.
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