A Wilder Rose: A Novel
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The Little House Books
Little House in the Big Woods, 1932. New York: Harper & Row.
Farmer Boy, 1933. New York: Harper & Row.
Little House on the Prairie, 1935. New York: Harper & Row.
On the Banks of Plum Creek, 1937. New York: Harper & Row.
By the Shores of Silver Lake, 1939. New York: Harper & Row.
The Long Winter, 1940. New York: Harper & Row.
Little Town on the Prairie, 1941. New York: Harper & Row.
These Happy Golden Years, 1943. New York: Harper & Row.
Works by Laura Ingalls Wilder
West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915. Ed. Roger MacBride, 1974. New York: Harper & Row.
The First Four Years. Ed. Roger MacBride, 1971. New York: Harper & Row.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks. Ed. Stephen W. Hines, 2008. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press.
Works by Rose Wilder Lane
Henry Ford’s Own Story, 1917. New York: Ellis O. Jones.
Diverging Roads, 1919. New York: Century Company.
The Making of Herbert Hoover, 1920. New York: Century Company.
The Peaks of Shala, 1923. New York: Harper & Brothers.
He Was a Man, 1925. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Hill-Billy, 1926. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Let the Hurricane Roar, 1933. New York: Longmans, Green & Company.
Old Home Town, 1935. New York: Longmans, Green & Company.
Give Me Liberty, 1936. New York & London: Longmans, Green & Company.
Free Land, 1938. New York: Longmans, Green & Company.
The Discovery of Freedom, 1943. New York: John Day Company.
Woman’s Day Book of American Needlework, 1963. New York: Simon & Schuster.
The Lady and the Tycoon: The Best of Letters Between Rose Wilder Lane and Jasper Crane. Ed. Roger MacBride, 1973. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers.
Travels with Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford, A Journal by Rose Wilder Lane and Helen Dore Boylston. Ed. William Holtz, 1983. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press.
Dorothy Thompson & Rose Wilder Lane: Forty Years of Friendship. Letters, 1921–1960. Ed. William Holtz, 1991. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press.
The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane, Literary Journalist. Ed. Amy Mattson Lauters, 2007. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Works by Rose Wilder Lane and Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894. With a Setting by Rose Wilder Lane, 1962. New York: Harper & Row.
A Little House Sampler: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane. Ed. William Anderson, 1988. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Manuscript Sources
Lane, Rose Wilder. Papers. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Her letters are part of the Lane Papers, labeled “Laura Ingalls Wilder Series.”
––––. Papers, 1894–1943. Joint Collection, University of Missouri, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri, microfilm.
Selected Sources
Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
––––. “Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: The Continuing Collaboration.” South Dakota History 16, no. 2 (1986): 89–143.
––––. “The Literary Apprenticeship of Laura Ingalls Wilder.” South Dakota History 13, no. 4 (1983): 285–331.
Campbell, Donna M. “‘Written with a Hard and Ruthless Purpose’: Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction.” In Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, edited by Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith, 25–44. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.
Ehrhardt, Julia C. Writers of Conviction: The Personal Politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.
Fellman, Anita Clair. “Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: The Politics of a Mother-Daughter Relationship.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15, no. 3 (1990): 535–561.
––––. Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 2008.
Hill, Pamela Smith. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2007.
Hines, Stephen W. I Remember Laura. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1994.
Holtz, William. “Closing the Circle: The American Optimism of Laura Ingalls Wilder.” Great Plains Quarterly 4 (1984): 79–90.
––––. “Ghost and Host in the Little House Books.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 29 (1996): 41–51.
––––. The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
––––. “Rose Wilder Lane’s Free Land: The Political Background.” South Dakota Review 30 (Spring 1992): 56–67.
Miller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
––––. Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 2008.
Moore, Rosa Ann. “Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: The Chemistry of Collaboration.” Children’s Literature in Education 11, no. 3 (1980): 101–109.
––––. “Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Orange Notebooks and the Art of the Little House Books.” Children’s Literature, no. 4 (1975): 105–119.
––––. “The Little House Books: Rose-Colored Classics.” Children’s Literature, no. 7 (1978): 7–16.
Romines, Ann. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Spaeth, Janet. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.
Zochert, Donald. Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: Avon, 1976.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Susan Wittig Albert grew up in Illinois, earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and served as an English professor and university administrator at the University of Texas, Tulane University, and Texas State University. A New York Times bestselling author, she has written over fifty mysteries in four different series, as well as other adult fiction, nonfiction, and books for young adults. She lives with her husband, Bill, on thirty-one acres in the Texas Hill Country, where she writes, reads, and pursues her other passions: gardening, raising chickens, and doing needlework. She is the founder of the Story Circle Network, an international organization dedicated to helping women tell their stories.