Yes, there was this part (which is mentioned in the "Prairie Fire" biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder):
"Blindly in my terror I attacked. 'Oh, aren't you ever going to let me do anything! Are you always going to drag me down and make me miserable? My goodness mama, I'm not a child! I'm sixteen! I'm almost going on seventeen, and just when I'm beginning to have a little pleasure in my life --' I was crying, wailing, 'Oh, why do you always have to spoil everything? Why can't you let me alone! Are you ever going to stop making me utterly miserable?"
R. W. Lane, "Long Skirts" on page 139 in "Old Home Town"
But also, what about this part:
"A strange thing happened then; I saw my mother. I saw her as a person, separate, not as my mother at all. There was the feeling that she was just a woman; and that she had been a girl herself, once, and had married and had me to bring up and that she wasn't quite sure about everything yet, and could be puzzled and confused and afraid of making mistakes.
She was just a woman, standing there in her last summer's Sunday lawn, faded a little now but with every ruffle carefully ironed; she was holding those ruffles above the dewy grass. I saw the wavy hair that she curled with such care, putting on a dressing sacque over her corset-cover and petticoats, heating the iron in the lampchimney and testing it with a moistened finger and gazing so anxiously into the glass; she was a settled married woman but still she wanted to look nice, and I could have cried over that wavy hair. She did look nice; she looked kind and brave and sensible. She was really beautiful."
R. W. Lane, "Long Skirts" on page 157 in "Old Home Town"
How can you ignore that!
If you read the story.
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