Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: On the Path into Fiction: The Editing of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Pioneer Girl into Little House in the Big Woods -- The Manuscripts -- Editorial Procedures -- Rose Wilder Lane Steps onto the Path: Juvenile Pioneer Girl and 'When Grandma Was a Little Girl' -- Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues down the Path: Wilder's Completed Manuscript, Her Working Draft, and Fragments of 'Little House in the Woods' -- At the End of the Path: Publication and Promotion of Little House in the Big Woods.
Summary:
"When Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, she had no idea that children across the United States would be reading about and falling in love with Laura Ingalls and her family just two years later. Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction traces the evolution of Wilder's matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of Little House in the Big Woods. The third volume in the Pioneer Girl Project series, Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction follows Wilder as she steps away from autobiography and into the world of fiction."--Publisher's description.
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