Best-bets for Dec. 29: young heroines, Laura and Anne
1) “American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder,” 8-9:30 p.m., PBS. People already sort of know Wilder; her eight novels (and the “Little House” TV series, shown here) fictionalized her frontier childhood. But the real story is even more interesting. She had 14 or 15 girlhood homes; her family left one in the middle of the night, to escape debts. She began writing for farm magazines in her 40s and started her novels at 63 – with her daughter doing major rewrites. This warm portrait also views the biases that she reflected. Read more…