Maud hart lovelace books in order6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Most of Laura’s childhood was spent on the prairie of Redwood County, Minnesota, and eastern South Dakota, where talk of homesteads, dugouts and claim shanties was common. …might it be time for each of us to write our story? Each of us can give the gift of history to people 50 or 100 years from now so that they will understand how circumstances have changed over the course of our lives. ![]() But Charles Ingalls’ wanderlust brought adventure and, often, instability to his family. Had the Ingalls family stayed in Wisconsin, where Laura was born, perhaps her childhood would have been more like Maud’s-surrounded by extended family members in an established community. These two women, with whom so many children have grown up, gave us the opportunity to experience history as they lived it. Maud, born in 1892, enjoyed the stability of a Midwestern town in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Laura, born in 1867, was a child of the frontier. ![]() Laura Ingalls Wilder and Maud Hart Lovelace, born just 25 years apart in the Upper Midwest, both became writers. ![]()
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