"Here was the book no depression could stop."
~ Virginia Kirkus (of the Kirkus Reviews) on reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's manuscript.
Quoted in Chapter 10 (?) that's what my screen says of
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder" by Caroline Fraser | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33911349-prairie-fires
"In January 1933—the same month the Ford Motor Company laid off 100,000 workers and a record 242 U.S. banks failed—Virginia Kirkus started a business, the Virginia Kirkus Bookshop Service, that she was advised to file under 'Pipe Dreams' by 24 of the 25 people she asked for advice. 'If I had to sell the Service to regular bookstores by mail, I’d fast and pray for a few days (because I think it is a damn tough job),' one friend replied to her. 'Virginia, selling gold bricks by mail would be much easier.'”
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