| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Missouri Biography Ser |
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Missouri Biography Ser
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| Contents |
Becoming Laura IngallsWilder; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Pioneer Girl 1867 -1879; 2 Schoolgirl and Courting Days 1879 -1885; 3 The Joys and Sorrows of Early Married Life 1885 -1894; 4 In the Land of the Big Red Apple 1894 -1911; 5 Building a Writing Career 1911 -1923; 6 Turning to Autobiography 1923 -1932; 7 Becoming a Celebrated Author 1932 -1937; 8 Completing the Series 1937 -1943; 9 Basking in the Glow of Her Readers 'Affection 1943 -1957; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Annotation Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels and describes her sixty-three years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. As a result, the process of personal development that culminated in Wilder's writing of the novels that secured her reputation as one of America's most popular children's authors becomes evident |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-289) and index |
| Audience |
Trade University of Missouri Press |
| Notes |
9 University of Missouri Press |
| Subject |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957
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| SUBJECT |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 fast |
| Subject |
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Women authors, American
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Women pioneers
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| SUBJECT |
Missouri -- Biography
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| Subject |
Missouri
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826216489 |
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082621648X |
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0826211674 |
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9780826211675 |
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