West from Home
The Rose Years cycle |
West from Home is a
West from Home is sometimes considered part of the
Reception
Kirkus Reviews observed that "in a sense the well loved chronicler of pioneer childhood had not yet been born", 17 years before Little House in the Big Woods. "The author of these letters home is Mama Bess, a farm wife and occasional contributor to the Missouri Ruralist ...".[1] It concluded, "though students of children's literature might be interested to know that Rose Lane gave her mother help with her writing, Mama's greater preoccupation with recouping a loan made to the Lanes can have mattered to no one but husband Manly. That we find these letters only intermittently interesting can hardly be blamed on Mrs. Wilder who intended them for her husband and friends, but at best they serve as an object lesson proving the English composition cliche 'write about what you know'."[1]
References
- ^ a b c "West From Home: Letters Of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915". Kirkus Reviews. March 1, 1974. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
- ^ a b c "West from home: letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder to Almanzo Wilder, San ...". Library of Congress Online Catalog (catalog.loc.gov). Retrieved 2015-10-02.
- ^ "On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894". Kirkus Reviews. November 1, 1962. Retrieved 2015-10-02.