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unlovelyladybartleby t1_ixxfry3 wrote

I don't see many similarities. I mean, they were both female and both ended up being teachers but that was one of the only jobs available to women.

It's a novelized memoir on the wagon trail in the US with a birth family and sisters and crappy luck vs fiction about a settled life in Canada with an adoptive family and no sibs and higher education and incredibly good luck.

Even the racism is different. Ma hates the Indigenous and Marilla hates the French

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unlovelyladybartleby t1_iy0o63y wrote

Ma says dozens of times that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian". I'd say that counts as hate lol, especially when you're saying that illegally squatting on treaty land

Marilla was a product of her time. The only bit where it's really egregious is when she's trying to decide if ruined food is good enough for the French farm hand and the pigs

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Bernie_katzroy OP t1_iy0olik wrote

They weren't aware of illegally squatting until some US soldiers told em. Pa was more open minded. I need to go back and re-read it. Yeah I agree with that, Matthew was the keeps to himself friendly guy we all need in life.

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unlovelyladybartleby t1_iy0p3x1 wrote

Definitely do a reread, there's so much stuff that you notice as an adult. In Happy Golden Years Mr &Mrs Boast (the lovely young couple they spend the winter with in Shores of Crystal Lake) flat out tries to buy their baby

Someday I'm going to splurge on Pioneer Girl and get the full story

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Bernie_katzroy OP t1_iy0pbxo wrote

Definitely will. Also will probs go visit MN and WI sometime soon

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