Autobiography of Author of the 'Little House' Series

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Jennifer Maloney, A Grim House on the Prairie. Wall Street Journal, Dec 5, 2014
online.wsj.com/articles/pioneer-girl-tells-true-story-behind-little-house-1417715441
("Not long after she retired as a newspaper columnist, Laura Ingalls Wilder sat down to write the true, unvarnished story of her pioneer childhood. Writing with an adult audience in mind, her nonfiction account included dark, disturbing scenes and far graver hardships than she later depicted in her famed 'Little House' series")

Note:
(a) The book:

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl; The annotated autobiography. South Dakota Historical Society Press, Dec 30, 2014 (that date is what the publisher says, thogh available on Nov 17, 2014)
pioneergirlproject.org/
(b) The English surname INgalls means descendant(s) of Ingall, "from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Ingell, Old Norse Ingjaldr."
(c) The English, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname Wilder: "variant of Wild"
(d) " The real Laura Ingalls was also not as sheltered as the fictional Laura Ingalls. She was hired out into other families’ homes to do housework, take care of children or to care for someone who was ill."

hire (vt): "to grant the personal services of or temporary use of for a fixed sum <hire themselves out>"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hire