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Laura Ingalls Wilder - Author of the "Little House in the Big Woods" book series
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's first published book.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
The enormously popular "Little House in the Big Woods" children's book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder preserved in our minds the nostalgic images of one-room schoolhouses. Laura had actually attended and taught in a one-room school in the 1870s and 1880s.

Wilder did not start to write until the 1930s, when her first effort - an autobiography - failed to find a publisher. So Wilder turned to historical fiction, much of it set in a one-room school. Depression-era readers thrilled as the young protagonist Laura was whipped by her teacher, recited "the whole of American history" at a school performance, and eventually became a "schoolmarm" herself.

​The Wilder series would enjoy another burst of popularity in the 1960s and 1970s when a successful television adaptation ("Little House on the Prairie") brought renewed attention to the one-room schoolhouse. 

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Little House in the Woods television show.

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