What is curious is that Laura didn't start to write until she was rather old.. at the urging of her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane-- who was a popular author of essays and light weight articles. (she wrote a very wonderful book on american handcrafts, exploring not only the the different handcrafts, but the histrory of the same, and how the crafts where changed by americans..) its not a dead serious treatise, but it is well done, nice researched, an easy read, filled with fun facts. she traces aspects of the american revolution through hand crafts.. (American's thinking, and artwork and hand crafts showed an independance from their English counterparts 100 years before we made this clear by declaring independance from England.)
an example was knitting.. which became a household skill in america, while it remained a guilded craft in england and europe. america's first knitters where trained in knitting guilds in Holland. but less than 50 year after the first euopeans were in america, knitting was a generic household skill- practiced by men and women alike!
Now days, Rose Wilder Lane is all but forgotten, and her mother -- who only got published because she could trade on the name her daughter had made is remembered..
