A blog reader wrote in with the following:
Here is a message that appeared on another forum:
…there is some discussion about how much of the works are actually [Laura Ingalls Wilder’s] or her younger sister’s memories, and how much/what exactly was edited by her daughter. I was at a National Endowment for the Humanities class last year and one of the fellow teachers remarked that there is discussion among “Little House” researchers that it may even be that Laura’s daughter pressured her mother to write during the Depression as a source of income; the implication being that some sort of “elder abuse” was occuring to get the writing done. This is why I approach them with a bit of caution.
Can you comment on these points, and if true, how they may have affected the reliability of the contents?
What say you, Laura folk?