Best Historical Novels About Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer whose Little House books drew on her childhood in settler families moving through Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota and Dakota Territory. Born in 1867, she later settled with her husband Almanzo Wilder on a farm in Missouri.

Wilder began publishing the Little House books in the 1930s, drawing on her childhood in settler families moving through Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota and Dakota Territory. Wilder’s daughter Rose Wilder Lane played an important editorial role in developing the books for publication.

Kimberley Woodhouse’s Laura’s Shadow treats Laura Ingalls Wilder both as a young woman in 1890 De Smet and as the later author whose Little House mythology shapes a family secret uncovered in 1974. Mariah Patterson’s jealousy of Cap Garland’s attachment to Laura becomes the origin of a resentment passed down through generations, allowing the novel to contrast the remembered historical Laura with the public figure created by her books.

Historical novels and book series featuring Laura Ingalls Wilder (1 series)

Doors to the Past in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 12 books 4.4(2,753)

Doors to the Past is a multi-author dual-timeline series in which present-day characters investigate mysteries attached to historic American buildings, objects and landmarks. Letters, journals, hidden rooms, human remains, artworks and family stories connect modern romances with unresolved events from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The books…