Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Ann Romines
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With more than thirty-five million copies in print, the Little House series, written in the 1930s and 1940s by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, has been a spectacular commercial success. What is it about this eight-volume serial novel for children that accounts for its enduring power? And what does the popularity of these books tell us about the currents of American culture?
Ann Romines interweaves personal observation with scholarly analysis to address these que…
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