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    Laddie (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A True Blue Story

    By Gene Stratton-Porter

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    In Laddie, Little Sister tells us the story of her brother Laddie and her family—seen through her loving eyes. She adores Laddie, and feels that he is the only sibling who cares about her. In her loneliness she finds comfort in the natural world. Largely autobiographical, Gene Stratton-Porter’s novel is a classic tale of self-discovery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 26, 2011
    ISBN9781411448391
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    Laddie (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A True Blue Story
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    Gene Stratton-Porter

    Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an American author, photographer, and naturalist. Born in Indiana, she was raised in a family of eleven children. In 1874, she moved with her parents to Wabash, Indiana, where her mother would die in 1875. When she wasn’t studying literature, music, and art at school and with tutors, Stratton-Porter developed her interest in nature by spending much of her time outdoors. In 1885, after a year-long courtship, she became engaged to druggist Charles Dorwin Porter, with whom she would have a daughter. She soon grew tired of traditional family life, however, and dedicated herself to writing by 1895. At their cabin in Indiana, she conducted lengthy studies of the natural world, focusing on birds and ecology. She published her stories, essays, and photographs in Outing, Metropolitan, and Good Housekeeping before embarking on a career as a novelist. Freckles (1904) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) were both immediate bestsellers, entertaining countless readers with their stories of youth, romance, and survival. Much of her works, fiction and nonfiction, are set in Indiana’s Limberlost Swamp, a vital wetland connected to the Wabash River. As the twentieth century progressed, the swamp was drained and cultivated as farmland, making Stratton-Porter’s depictions a vital resource for remembering and celebrating the region. Over the past several decades, however, thousands of acres of the wetland have been restored, marking the return of countless species to the Limberlost, which for Stratton-Porter was always “a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel.”

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    • 5/5
      I have read this twice and draw such pleasure from it, I cannot explain. One of my favorites!
    • 5/5
      This is a coming of age story about a girl, Litter Sister, and her older brother, Laddie. One of Stratton-Porter's best stories telling about integrity and love of the land.
    • 5/5
      Hewing closely to the details of her own youth, this is Stratton-Porter's near-autobiographical story of childhood in rural America in the 1870s and 1880s. "Laddie" is a character based on Leander, Stratton-Porter's adored older brother, and the novel is a thinly fictionalized account of his love and courtship of a girl from a neighboring family, as observed by his younger sister. Readers who want to know more about the family should consult biographies of Stratton-Porter's life. They reveal the tragic story of the real "Laddie"; and the reader is left to wonder whether the novel is her attempt to make her brother's story "come out right".
    • 3/5
      Interesting variation on Stratton-Porter's usual romances. Instead of one romance belonging to the viewpoint character, the viewpoint character is a child (maybe 9 at the end of the story?), and romances abound. The family is nice but rather idealized - all the terrible troubles they have evaporate very quickly. The religious angle is pushed a bit too hard, but it's not as preachy as some of her books. The wildlife descriptions follow her usual pattern, though she goes to some effort _not_ to describe some of them accurately - again, the viewpoint character is a child, who's familiar with the creatures and plants around her but doesn't necessarily know their proper names. The girl is never named - she's called Little Sister through most of the book, and though she thinks a couple times about her "proper name", it's never actually mentioned. I hadn't realized the story was semi-autobiographical; I did think that Little Sister might grow up to be the Bird Woman of Freckles and the rest of the Limberlost books. She has that kind of focus. The happy ending(s) here is as contrived as the one in Freckles, and somewhat similar - titles and lords and redemption. Enjoyable, but not particularly memorable I think. I'll probably reread, in a few years.