Laura Ingalls Wilder: Start Your Research Here by Sarah Uthoff

The opening chapter gives Romines first hand account of being a girl in Brown's Bookstore for one of Laura's final public appearances. The rest is feminist literary analysis which is important to know to understand it.

A literary analysis of Wilder’s writing process. Quotes heavily from Wilder then unpublished autobiography Pioneer Girl.

Janes Spaeth creates book-length analysis of Wilder's work. Spaeth approaches the "Little House" series thematically, placing the novels in their biographical, historical, and sociological context to explore how Wilder portrays her life and family, the process of growing up, the westward movement, and the role of frontier women. She examines Wilder's literary techniques; evaluates the enduring appeal of the series in relation to other children's literature; and demonstrates Wilder's influence in shaping a popular conception of America's frontier past.

A book length literary analysis of the single book "Little House on the Prairie" from Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic series.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were "too good to be altogether lost." And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder of her lifetime and through most of the twentieth century. They were translated into dozens of languages; generations of children read them at school; and dedicated readers made pilgrimages to the settings of the Little House books. With the release of NBC's Little House on the Prairie series in 1974, Wilder was well on her way to becoming an international literary superstar. Simultaneously, however, the novels themselves began to slip from view, replaced by an onslaught of assumptions and questions about Wilder's values and politics and even about the books' authenticity. From the 1980s, a slow but steady critical crescendo began to erode Wilder's literary reputation. In Too Good to Be Altogether Lost, Wilder expert Pamela Smith Hill dives back into the Little House books, closely examining Wilder's text, her characters, and their stories. Hill reveals that these gritty, emotionally complex novels depict a realistic coming of age for a girl in the American West. This realism in Wilder's novels, once perceived as a fatal flaw, can lead to essential discussions not only about the past but about the present--and the underlying racism young people encounter when reading today. Hill's fresh approach to Wilder's books, including surprising revelations about Wilder's novel The First Four Years, shows how this author forever changed the literary landscape of children's and young adult literature in ways that remain vital and relevant today.

An edited collection of letters from Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A collection of annotated citations to articles/books about Laura Ingalls Wilder and the "Little House" books.

A collection of scholarly Wilder papers from the 1998 Wilder conference at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

A collection of essays comparing the Little House books with the actual history of De Smet, South Dakota.

A history of Laura Ingalls Wilder fandom and how the books have effected politics and the national mindset.

Although it includes edited reprints of Laura's articles, the main attraction is the reprints of oral histories and a section at the end of Laura Ingalls Wilder Mysteries aka what we still don't know.

A collection of essays by Laura expert John Miller that fit around the concepts of authorship, place, time and culture.

A collection of reprinted documents drawn from the Laura Ingalls Wilder/Rose Wilder Lane collection of papers at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

A landmark anthology giving the viewpoint of diverse women in the west, twenty-nine essays present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class. Only one article is about Laura Ingalls Wilder, but it's worth tracking it down.

A collection of essays about different subjects connected to the memoir "Pioneer Girl."

Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction traces the evolution of Wilder’s matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects of this story as she examines the various drafts of Little House in the Big Woods.

A history of what we know about the Hard Winter outside of Laura Ingalls Wilder's book "The Long Winter."

The story of Freemasonry in the Midwest, focused on the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The story of Carrie Ingalls Swanzey as a newspaper woman in South Dakota and how those newspapers worked.

The plants of the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories.

A exploration of the role of Rose Wilder Lane's editing and politics helped shape the "Little House" books.

What role did Laura Ingalls Wilder's Christian faith play in her life and writing? The beloved" Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in the first half of the twentieth century. Even her unpolished memoir, "Pioneer Girl," which tells the true story behind the children's books, was widely embraced upon its release in 2014. Despite Wilder's enduring popularity, few fans know much about her Christian beliefs and practice. John J. Fry shines a light on Wilder's quiet faith in this unique biography. Fry surveys the "Little House" books, "Pioneer Girl," and Wilder's lesser-known writings, including her letters, poems, and newspaper columns. Analyzing this wealth of sources, he reveals how Wilder's down-to-earth faith and Christian morality influenced her life and work. Interweaving these investigations with Wilder's perennially interesting life story, A Prairie Faith illustrates the Christian practices of pioneers and rural farmers during this dynamic period of American history.

Laura Ingalls Wilder wasn't an official weather observer. She simply paid attention. Her life and livelihood intertwined with the weather and climate around her, inseparable. Science has revealed the accuracy of the vivid, detailed weather descriptions in her fictional Little House books--stories of blizzards and prairie fires, tornadoes and grasshoppers, floods and droughts. Wilder's trusted voice builds a bridge for the millions of Americans who have enjoyed her books to connect the weather of the past to weather today and in the future, shining light on the changing climate around us and the ways to keep our families and communities safe. In Wilder Weather, readers will find both a place in history and a deeper understanding of weather and climate phenomena in their own lives. Those who pay attention as Wilder did can experience the weather and climate with all their senses. Readers can anticipate the weather and climate that's coming, tell stories and become part of the narrative, and take action to protect what they cherish, just as prairie settlers did a century and a half ago.

Although Laura's newspaper articles are the heart of book there is a lot of information about Midwestern faith. There are also modernized recipes from the historic De Smet cookbook.