{"product_id":"pioneer-girl-the-revised-texts-9781941813096","title":"Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor generations, the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder have defined the American frontier and the pioneer experience for the public at large. \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl: The Revised Texts\u003c\/i\u003e presents three typescripts of Wilder's original \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl\u003c\/i\u003e manuscript in an examination of the process through which she and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, transformed her autobiography into the much-loved \u003ci\u003eLittle House\u003c\/i\u003e series. As the women polished the narrative from draft to draft, a picture emerges of the working relationship between the women, of the lives they lived, and of the literary works they created.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Nancy Tystad Koupal and other editors of the Pioneer Girl Project provide a meticulous study of the Wilder\/Lane partnership as Wilder's autobiography undergoes revision, and the women redevelop and expand portions of it into Wilder's successful children's and young adult novels and into Lane's bestselling adult novels in the 1930s. The three revised texts of \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, set side by side, showcase the intertwined processes of writing and editing and the contributions of writer and editor. In background essays and annotations, Koupal and her team of editors provide historical context and explore the ways in which Wilder or Lane changed and reused the material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilder and Lane's partnership has been the subject of longstanding speculation, but \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl: The Revised Texts\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to explore the women's relationship by examining the evolution of surviving manuscripts. Showcasing differences in the texts and offering numerous additional documents and handwritten emendations, the editors create a rich resource for scholars to use in assessing the editorial and writing principles, choices, and reasoning that Lane employed to shape the manuscripts for publication. Readers can follow along as Wilder grows into a novelist that \"no depression could stop.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller, \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), edited by Pamela Smith Hill, gave the general reader easy access to Wilder's original account for the first time, but that book only scratched the surface of available textual and archival materials. Ultimately, the editors of \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl: The Revised Texts\u003c\/i\u003e employ the rich resource of letters between Wilder and her publisher and between Wilder and Lane, along with rough drafts and false starts of the \u003ci\u003eLittle House\u003c\/i\u003e books, to inform scholars and readers about the original manuscript's metamorphosis into novels and about the intriguing editorial relationship between Wilder and Lane. \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl: The Revised Texts\u003c\/i\u003e deepens our understanding of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the process through which she would ultimately become an icon of young adult literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl: The Revised Texts\u003c\/i\u003e makes fresh observations that are sure to jump-start new debate and discussions centered on the writer-editor relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane. The annotations provide great documentary background and reveal the behind the scenes work that led to the now classic Little House series.\"\"- William A. Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Through my own typewriter\": The Revised Texts of Pioneer Girl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditorial Procedures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePioneer Girl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKansas and Missouri, 1869-1871\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWisconsin, 1871-1874\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinnesota 1874-1876\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIowa, 1876–1877\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinnesota, 1877-1879\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDakota Territory, 1879-1880\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dakota Territory, the Hard Winter, 1880–1881\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDakota Territory, 1880-1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDakota Territory, 1883-1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"South Dakota State Historical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470345736535,"sku":"9781941813096","price":42.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781941813096.jpg?v=1744898076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pioneer-girl-the-revised-texts-9781941813096","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}