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Little House on the Prairie, serial killers, and the nature of memoir
Over the weekend, I read a couple of the posts blogger Ana Mardoll has been writing in which she deconstructs some of the weirder/more objectionable elements of the Little House books. That sent me...
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The Meteorology of Little House on the Prairie
If you read The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder's novel about narrowly avoiding starving to death during a ferocious winter on the South Dakota prairie, then you'll remember how the trains stopped...
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Forget scarlet fever: What really blinded Mary Ingalls
Anybody who has spent much time with children's literature knows that scarlet fever blinded Mary Ingalls. But scarlet fever doesn't cause blindness. Mary really did become blind, though, in real life...
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