Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer whose Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, which were based on her experience as a settler and pioneer family, and starred Melissa Gilbert as her father, Charles Ingalls.

Later life and death

Laura and Almanzo moved back to the farmhouse they had built following Lane's departure from Rocky Ridge Farm, which had most recently been occupied by families. They were alone at Rocky Ridge Farm from 1935 to 1945. The majority of the surrounding area, including the property that was designed for them, had been sold, but they did keep some farm animals and tended their flower beds and vegetable gardens. Almost every day, carloads of fans stopped by, eager to explore the Little House's "Laura" series.

Before Almanzo's death at the farm in 1949 at the age 92, the Wilders lived independently and without financial worries. Wilder stayed on the farm. She lived alone for the next eight years, followed by a circle of neighbors and acquaintances. During those years, she maintained regular correspondence with her editors, followers, and acquaintances.

89-year-old Wilder, an undiagnosed diabetes and heart disease sufferer, became severely sick in fall 1956. Lane, a visitor to Thanksgiving, was hospitalized. On the day after Christmas, she was able to return home. However, her health worsened after her release from the hospital, and she died in her sleep on February 10, 1957, three days after her 90th birthday. At Mansfield Cemetery, Almanzo was buried beside her. Lane was buried next to them at her death in 1968.

Following Wilder's death, the owner of Rocky Ridge Farm was transferred to the farmer, who had previously owned the property under a life lease agreement. The local community formed a non-profit group to buy the house and its grounds for use as a museum. Lane came to the conclusion that making the house rather than the books a shrine to Wilder because doing so would bring long-term interest to the novels. She donated the funds needed to buy the house and make it a museum, and pledged to make regular contributions to its upkeep every year and donated a large portion of her parents' possessions.

Lane inherited the Little House literary estate after her death, as required by Wilder's will. The condition was that it be for her lifetime, with all rights reverting to the Mansfield library after her death. Following her death in 1968, Roger MacBride, her chosen heir, took over the books' copyrights. She has worked as both a company and advocate, as well as her corporate agent and advocate. Since the original copyright had expired, the copyrights to each of Wilder's "Little House" books, as well as those of Lane's own literary works, were reissued in his name.

Following MacBride's death in 1995, the Wright County Library in Mansfield, part of Wilder, attempted to recover the rights to the collection. The ensuing court case was decided in an undisclosed manner, with MacBride's heirs retaining the rights to Wilder's books. The library was able to start work on a new building as a result of the settlement.

Following Wilder's death, the Little House books have grown in popularity over the years, spawning a multimillion-dollar franchise of mass merchandising under MacBride's reign. In addition to the franchise's bestsellers, MacBride and his daughter, Abigail, and the long-running television series with Melissa Gilbert as Wilder and Michael Landon as her father.

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Writing career

Wilder's permanent position as a columnist and editor with the Missouri Ruralist in 1911 led to her tenure as a columnist and editor with the newspaper, which she held until the mid-1920s. She served as a paid worker with the local Farm Loan Association, dispensing small loans to local farmers.

"As a Farm Woman Thinks," Wilder's column in the Ruralist introduced her to a devoted following of rural Ozarkans who enjoyed her regular columns. Rose Wilder Lane, her now-married daughter, on her 1915 journey to San Francisco, California, to World War II and other international events, and her own thoughts about the increasing choices available to women during this period. Although the couple were never wealthy before the "Little House" books became more popular, the farming operation and Wilder's income from writing, as well as the Farm Loan Association provided them with a secure lifestyle.

"By" 1924, according to Professor John E. Miller, "wilder" had been a disciplined writer who was able to produce clear, readable prose for a general audience."

Wilder's daughter, Lane, started intensively encouraging Wilder to develop her writing skills in the hopes of greater success as a writer, as opposed to Lane's. According to Miller, the Wilders had to "depend] on annual income subsidies from their increasingly popular and wealthy daughter." Both had come to the conclusion that the best way to increase their retirement income was for Wilder to become a good writer herself. In Country Gentleman magazine, Lane assisted Wilder in publishing two articles about the farmhouse's interior. However, the "program never progressed very far."

Lane contracted out the building of an English-style stone cottage for her parents on a property adjacent to the farmhouse that had been personally built and also occupied in 1928. She remodeled and took it over.

The Wilders were wiped out by 1929's Stock Market Crash; Lane's investments were also devastated. They still owned the 200-acre (81-hectare) farm, but they had put the bulk of their funds into Lane's broker's account.

Wilder requested Lane's opinion about an autobiographical book she had written about her pioneering childhood in 1930. The Great Depression, as well as the deaths of Wilder's mother in 1924 and her older sister in 1928, seem to have prompted her to preserve her memories in a life story called Pioneer Girl. She also hoped that her writing would bring in additional funds.

When Grandma Was a Little Girl was the first of the books, the original title was When Grandma Was a Child. She greatly expanded the tale on Lane's publisher's recommendation. Harper & Brothers published Wilder's book in 1932 as Little House in the Big Woods as a result of Lane's fame as a good writer and after editing by her. She continued writing after the event's success. Lane's close and often rocky collaboration began in person until 1935, when Lane permanently left Rocky Ridge Farm and thereafter by correspondence.

The partnership was successful in both directions: Let the Hurricane Roar (1932) and Free Land (1938), two of Lane's most popular books, were published at the same time as the "Little House" series and basically retold Ingalls and Wilder family tales in an adult format.

Wilder's daughter was her ghostwriter, according to others, including Lane's biographer William Holtz. Existing evidence, as well as ongoing conversations between the women regarding the book's growth, Lane's extensive diaries, and Wilder's handwritten manuscripts with editor notations shows that the two women are in constant communication.

Miller, who uses this information, refers to Lane's various degrees of involvement. Little House in the Big Woods (1932) and These Happy Golden Years (1943), he says, had the least editing. "The first pages...and other key portions of [Big Woods] are largely intact, indicating...[Laura's] natural talent for narrative description." Lane's presence in some volumes sparked more interest, but The First Four Years (1971) appears to be purely a Wilder creation. "[i]n the end, the mother's literary legacy endures more than that of the daughter," Miller says.

Authorship is often attributed to a push to read the Little House series through an ideological lens. Lane came to prominence in the 1930s as a devoted conservative critic and critic of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and his New Deal initiatives. "America has a tyrant tyrant" when Roosevelt was elected, she wrote in her diary, "America has a tyrant." She pleaded for his son's assassination and considered doing the job herself. "[Wilder's] authorship attacks appear to have been directed at infusing her books with ideological passions that she otherwise doesn't have," Lane's views.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House collection has received flak about her characterization of Native Americans, which has prompted modern interpretations of race relations. They have also been the subject of postcolonial literature, including Kathy Jetnil-Kojiner's "To Laura Ingalls Wilder" in her 2017 collection Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter.

Based on the Ingalls family's experiences on the American frontier, the original Little House books, written for elementary school-age children, became a enduring, eight-volume record of pioneering life in the 19th century. Wilder began "with a style that was appealing to the eight-year-olds and continuing in increasing length and difficulty as Irene Smith pointed out shortly after "These Happy Golden Years (1943) was released. This is a distinguishing feature of the Little House books." The First Four Years, a literary executor who lived in Lane's 1968 death and published in 1971, was unedited by Lane or MacBride. It is now available in the ninth edition.

The books have been in print and have been translated into 40 other languages since the publication of Little House in the Big Woods (1932). In 1932, Wilder's first—and first—royalty check from Harper was worth $500, or $9,930 in 2021. For the first time in their 50 years of marriage, the royalties from the Little House books brought a steady and increasing income to the Wilders in the mid-1930s. In addition, the two writers at Rocky Ridge Farm were able to recover the losses of their stock market investments. Wilder has been honoured with various awards, a lot of fan mail, and other trophies.

Wilder started writing her autobiography, titled Pioneer Girl, in 1929-1930, she was still in her early 60s. Publishers had it rejected. She rewrote the bulk of her stories for children at Lane's behest. The result was the Little House series of books. The South Dakota State Historical Society published an annotated version of Wilder's autobiography, titled Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, in 2014.

Wilder Girl consists of tales about a man mistakenly immolating himself while inebriated, as well as an assault of a local shopkeeper against his wife, which resulted in their house being burned. She also discusses previously unknown facets of her father's life. "Wilder's romance, her autobiography, and her real childhood, according to the paper's publisher, are all distinct, but they are closely linked." The book's intention was to investigate the differences, which included incidents of conflicting or missing accounts in one or another of the sources.

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