Who needs a welfare state?
Deborah Friedell: The Little House Books, 22 November 2012
The Little House Books
by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Library of America, 1490 pp., £56.50, August 2012,978 1 59853 162 6 Show More
by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Library of America, 1490 pp., £56.50, August 2012,
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of ‘Little House on the Prairie’
by Wendy McClure.
Riverhead, 336 pp., £10, April 2012,978 1 59448 568 8 Show More
by Wendy McClure.
Riverhead, 336 pp., £10, April 2012,
“... are comforted. Above all, they are grateful to have been born in a free country, where the only king is God, and ‘the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God endow you with a right to life and liberty.’ When the first Little House book was published in 1932, Wilder was 65. Until then, she had written only short essays about her life in the Ozarks for the ... ”