Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane (born December 5, 1886 in De Smet , Dakota Territory , † October 30, 1968 in Danbury , Connecticut ), daughter of Almanzo Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder , was an American writer and political theorist.

Life

In 1891 she moved with her parents to live with Peter, a cousin of her mother Laura, in Westville , which she processed in 1922 in a fictional story ( Innocence ). A year later the family moved back to De Smet, where they attended school and learned to write and read. In 1894 the Wilders moved with the Cooley family and a team of horses to the Ozarks in Missouri. Laura's diary of this trip was edited by Rose and published as On The Way Home . Since Rose was bored in school, her mother encouraged her to study at home.

In 1903 Rose moved to Crowley , Louisiana , to live with her aunt Eliza Jane to attend high school. A year later, she graduated from school, learned telegraphy and got a job with the Western Union in Kansas City. Three years later she was working in Mount Vernon, Indiana . She moved to San Francisco in 1908 and worked there as a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin. She married Gillette Lane, who lived in the same house, on March 24, 1909. They then moved to Kansas City , where Rose worked for the Kansas City Post. In 1910 she gave birth to a boy who died shortly after birth; later she did not have any more children. The couple moved back to San Francisco. Rose made a career there, but she and her husband found less and less time together.

Rose began writing short stories, including columns for the San Francisco Bulletin. In 1917 Rose published her first book, Henry Ford's Own Story . In 1918 they divorced Gillette. Rose then moved to Greenwich Village , New York, and worked as a ghost writer for Frederick O'Brien's White Shadows on the South Seas . She wrote The Making of Herbert Hoover under her own name. After the First World War , Rose became a reporter for the American Red Cross to write about the conditions of war-torn countries. During this time, Rose met two women who became her closest friends, Dorothy Thompson and Helen “Troub” Boylston , later best known for the Sue Barton Youth Books . Rose traveled to many countries, but preferred Albania . There she met the little Albanian boy Rexh Meta, whom she later supported so that he could go to college.

In 1924 Rose returned to Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield , Missouri and wrote the novels Cindy and Hill Billy . Unsatisfied in Missouri, she returned to Albania with Helen Boylston. Because of the unstable situation in 1928, both returned to Missouri to the farm that they had built for their parents. In 1929 she lost a lot of money in the stock market crash , so she started writing again. Rose encouraged her mother to write too, so Laura wrote down the stories of her childhood based on her diary, calling them Pioneer Girl . Rose was looking for a publisher for her mother, whom she only found after Laura had rewritten her books into children's stories. Little House in the Big Woods (German Our Little Farm ) appeared.

Rose authored Hurricane Roar in 1933 and Free Land in 1938, and wrote about her childhood in Mansfield in the book Old Town . In 1938 Rose moved to New York, then Danbury, Connecticut, where she became politically active when she wrote The Discovery of Freedom . In 1943 she met Roger Lea McBride, a son of her editor, who she later called "Grandma"; he became their lawyer and heir. Her mother Laura died in 1957 and she tried to keep Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield as a keepsake for her mother. Rose went to Vietnam as a war correspondent in 1965 . In 1968, three years later, she planned a trip to Europe, which she no longer took. She died the day before.

Works (selection)

Among other things, published in German:

• The Great Breakout from Folsom Prison , Asperg Killroy Media, 2008
• The American Revolution, a beacon of freedom , Luxembourg Sankt-Paulus-Druckerei, 1984
• Just let the storm howl , Wiesbaden Der Greif, 1947

Web links

• Literature by and about Rose Wilder Lane in the catalog of the German National Library
• Texts by Rose Wilder Lane in the Internet Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.cato.org/three-women-who-launched-movement/rose-wilder-lane