A Wilder Rose: A Novel, by Susan Wittig Albert
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A Wilder Rose: A Novel, by Susan Wittig Albert
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The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert reimagines the fascinating story of Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, an intrepid world traveler and writer who returned to her parents’ Ozark farm, Rocky Ridge, in 1928. There she began a collaboration with her mother on the pioneer stories that would captivate generations of readers around the world.
Despite the books’ success, Rose’s involvement would remain a secret long after both women died. A vivid account of a great literary deception, A Wilder Rose is a spellbinding tale of a complicated mother-daughter relationship set against the brutal backdrop of the Great Depression.
Revised edition: This edition of A Wilder Rose: A Novel includes editorial revisions.
A Wilder Rose: A Novel, by Susan Wittig Albert- Amazon Sales Rank: #45867 in Books
- Brand: Albert, Susan Wittig
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 302 pages
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Rose Wilder Lane was the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and an accomplished professional author. Over the years, there has been literary conjecture that she was responsible in large part for the authorship of the Little House series. Albert's book is fictional, but based on Lane's unpublished diaries and letters, and makes a strong case for her active involvement with the Little House books. Albert presents the story of a strong-willed successful woman driven to help her parents develop their nest egg during the Great Depression. Lane labors tirelessly at her own work and editing that of her mother, never accepting credit or money, but growing frustrated at the difficulties and demands over time. Albert does an excellent job of bringing historical figures to life in a credible way; her novel is well paced, its characterizations are strong, and the plot is solidly constructed.. Readers begin to understand Lane's personality and mentality, as well as the things that drive her. Albert immerses readers in a historical period and gets them to understand the political and social conflicts of the time. Fans of Wilder will be intrigued by the book's thesis and its presentation.
From Kirkus Reviews This pitch-perfect novel reimagines the life of Rose Wilder Lane, co-author of Little House on the Prairie. Albert (Widow’s Tears, 2013, etc.) has discovered an endlessly fascinating protagonist. Rose Wilder Lane, the libertarian and rumored lesbian, was an established, award-winning writer in her own right, but she may be best remembered today as the uncredited co-author of the Little House books written by her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Albert’s well-researched novel draws from the letters and journal entries of both women to offer a fictionalized account of the years spanning 1928-1939. The Great Depression threatened not only Rose’s livelihood as a writer, but also the freewheeling, itinerant lifestyle she so valued. When she and her companion, Helen Boylston, leave their home in Albania and return to the Wilder farmstead in Missouri, the move is meant to be temporary—Mansfield, Mo., has little to offer in the way of culture, after all, and Rose frequently clashes with her headstrong and old-fashioned mother. In the aftershock of the stock market crash, however, both women lose their savings, and Rose loses the financial stability she had enjoyed as a freelance writer before the crash. When a publisher shows interest in printing the stories of Laura’s difficult frontier childhood (but Laura’s untrained writing fails to impress), the mother and daughter enter into an unlikely, often contentious collaboration to produce the now-beloved Little House books. From this strange, very specific historical relationship, Albert has written a nuanced, moving and resonant novel about fraught mother-daughter relationships, family obligation and the ways we both inherit and reject the values of our parents. The book also offers insightful, timely commentary on what it means to be a career writer. With all of the charm of the Little House series—and the benefit of a sophisticated, adult worldview—Albert’s novel is an absolute pleasure.
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“Albert has written a nuanced, moving, and resonant novel about fraught mother-daughter relationships, family obligation, and the ways we both inherit and reject the values of our parents...With all of the charm of the Little House series—and the benefit of a sophisticated, adult worldview—Albert’s novel is an absolute pleasure.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Albert does an excellent job of bringing historical figures to life in a credible way; her novel is well paced, its characterizations are strong, and the plot is solidly constructed.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“A revealing behind-the-scenes look into a literary deception that has persisted for decades.” —William Holtz, author of The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane
“A Wilder Rose expertly fleshes out the bond between mother and daughter. The novel is a fine study in personalities, an accurate depiction of time and place, and a thorough understanding of the birth of the Little House books.” —William Anderson, author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography
“Albert has written a compelling novel that lays out a very plausible version of the events leading to each of the Little House books...An amazingly engrossing story.” —Janet Spaeth, author of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“A Wilder Rose fictionalizes history in a way that helps readers better understand the thoughts, emotions, and desires that motivated and energized them and the people surrounding them.” —John E. Miller, author of Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
“A Wilder Rose is a compelling depiction of one of the most significant literary collaborations of the twentieth century. That the two people involved were mother and daughter adds to its complexity and human interest.” —Anita Claire Fellman, author of Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture
“A Wilder Rose smoothly blends fact and fiction...a splendid novel for everyone who has loved the Little House books.” —Carolyn Hart, award-winning author of Ghost Gone Wild
“The Little House books might be about brave pioneers surviving difficult trials, but between the lines hides the ghost of the books: the daughter who inherited the stories, built the storyline, supported her parents, but whose independence led her through an entirely different journey.” —Amy Khron, Revision 3
“The tense but loving relationship that arose from [the Wilder/Lane] collaboration is artfully depicted by Albert, whose elegant prose and evident fascination with the characters and time period make for an unexpected page-turner. If you are drawn to stories of mothers and daughters, the creative process, identity, or the first few decades of the twentieth century, this one’s for you.” —David Bowles, “Top Shelf,” The Monitor
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174 of 181 people found the following review helpful. A Complicated Story By 8thCyn I have extremely complicated thoughts about this book. I am a huge fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, which then led me to a lifetime of research into Laura the person. I knew the basics about Rose - more than the average LIW fan, but still not a lot - and so I was very curious to read this book. However, knowing that she not only agreed with William Holz's biography of Rose, The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane, but used it in her research, made me more than a little wary.For those who don't know, Holz's book puts forward the theory that Rose was really the author of the Little House books, or at the very least a co-author. The book caused a huge uproar among LIW fans, for obvious reasons. I still don't know what I think, and someday I hope to have a chance to examine Laura's original manuscripts, or at least copies of them, to get a feel for what really went on.But back to A Wilder Rose: first off, as I started reading, I didn't want to stop. As much as it upset me to read a lot of it, it was also fascinating to learn more about Rose. But reading about her relationship with Laura - which was undoubtedly complicated, at best - was incredibly painful for me. Rose was the only child of Laura and Almanzo Wilder to live past infancy, and her parents - moreso her mother - had a very hard time letting go of her. Yet in some ways, Rose and Laura were almost too much alike, only Rose got the freedom and unconventional life that Laura had imagined for herself.About 2/3 of the way through the book I sort of lost momentum. It seemed to be just repeating the same ideas over and over again: Rose was stuck living at Rocky Ridge, feeling the pressure to look after everyone, even as she took on responsibility for more and more people. She thought that the royalties from Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, and Little House on the Prairie (LIW's contract was originally for three books) would allow her parents to support themselves without financial dependence on her, but she didn't expect there to be eight books that she would spend months rewriting. The theme of Rose's "prison" became very dragging on the book, and I just wanted to tell her to get over herself! Either help or not, but shut up about it! I probably should have been feeling sympathy, but I just got tired of her excuses for why she couldn't possibly change her situation.I also wish that it had felt a little less like: "this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened..." Despite the interludes where 53-year-old Rose talks about the past decade of her life with a young writer friend (which I actually found distracting) eventually the litany of depression (granted, it takes place during the Great Depression) becomes almost suffocating. She talks about loving John Turner (one of her informally "adopted" sons) but as a reader, I never really saw WHY she did, and I wasn't really sure I saw the expression of that love, either.In fact many of the characters in the book seem to be underdeveloped. Outside of Rose and Laura, you rarely get a sense of the other characters. We don't understand what they saw in Rose, or what Rose saw in them. One example is Rose's friend "Troub" (AKA Helen Boylston): the author hints at a romantic relationship between the two, but I wish it had been stated conclusively one way or the other. As it is written, it just felt like the author didn't want to make a decision one way or the other.However, overall, I'd recommend this book to those interested in Laura and Rose. While I can't say it is historical fact (the reader has to keep in mind that it is a novel, although I wish that she'd taken a cue from Rose herself and allowed herself more literary freedom to shape the story) it is factual enough to be interesting, and to make me want to explore more about Rose.I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
60 of 72 people found the following review helpful. A fine line walked successfully By ShelsDreams *I received a digital ARC of this via NetGalley*Susan Wittig Albert undertook a brave task when she decided to write about Rose Wilder Lane, and her role in the creation/editing of the famous Little House books with her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder. After all, who wants to mess with a modern-day legend, that of the Pioneer Girl who became famous for her "memoirs"? Even so, Susan's sympathetic treatment of the beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder lessens the sting that might otherwise have spoiled the book for those determined to hang onto the idealization. The book is written from Rose's point of view and in Rose's very unique voice.This historical novelization is both masterfully written, and fascinating. This has been "can't put it down" reading for me. I found myself looking up and being relieved that we were not in the middle of a dust storm.And that last sentence brings me to what I was feeling in the most gripping point of this book, where the author (in Rose's voice) is describing the Dust Bowl days in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. I'm a native Texan. I grew up in the Texas Panhandle. I've lived through dust storms (though not as bad as what they had in the 1930's.) But the descriptions in A Wilder Rose bring the Dust Bowl days to grim life, and vividly remind me of how tough the Depression really was. My mother was born in 1932 in the Texas Panhandle, and though she always made light of her childhood, I know it could not have been an easy life, as a member of a pioneer family in the largely (at that time) unsettled Texas Panhandle.Startlingly, there are a LOT of parallels in Rose's description of the angriness of people about the state of the country then, and the angriness of people about the state of our country now. I found myself not agreeing with Rose's politics, but I had to admire her passionate stance.
48 of 57 people found the following review helpful. A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet! By Readerwoman My name is Laura - a name chosen for me not only after a relative, but because my much-older sisters were reading the series (Little House on the Prairie etc.) when I was born. So I have always had a vested interest, so to speak, in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder.Susan Wittig Albert is a marvelously prolific, creatively inspirational writer, with a large palette of visionary and beautiful stories always waiting to be told. Her China Bayles herbal mysteries, her Victorian mysteries (written with her husband under the nom de plume Robin Paige,) her Beatrix Potter Cottage Tales and the relatively new series, The Darling Dahlias, all show her remarkable talent and amazing interests. But this newest Albert book breaks unusual ground.Here, she takes on the story behind the stories. Based on voluminous research, she takes us down seldom trod paths, weaving in the story we know, about Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, with the little-known background stories revolving around her relationship with her only daughter, Rose. The unmentioned contributions Rose made to her parents' lives in Missouri, and to the body of work that became synonymous with Laura is laid out here in A Wilder Rose, and takes us behind the scenes with Rose Wilder Lane, a published author and journalist in her own right.I am obviously a Susan Wittig Albert fan, having read all her books of the last 20 years, which also include some great non-fiction (Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place; and An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days.) I hope you will do as I did, and read this book with an open mind and an open heart - ready to delve into the complexities of mother/daughter relationships, and the accomplishments of this particular duo. The book will challenge your preconceived ideas about the Little House books, and yet, it will bring you home with a satisfying understanding of book writing, publishing and parenting, yesterday and today.
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