![]() ![]() Writing about the books, Lovelace opined, “I could make it all up, but in these Betsy-Tacy stories, I love to work from real incidents.” She elaborated, “The Ray family is a true portrayal of the Hart family. The fictional Deep Valley, Minnesota, is a narrative replica of Lovelace’s town of birth and early life, Mankato, Minnesota. Raising those vexing questions of truth and fiction, Lovelace based the stories closely on her childhood. ![]() The uneventful and unglamorous existence of the families in a small fictional town in Minnesota does not evoke heroic fascination. The girls-Elizabeth (“Betsy”), Anastacia (“Tacy”), and later Thelma (“Tib”)-are far from prim and get up to all manner of mischief, but their continuous enthusiasm for life is a lesson to the world-weary in what unjaded life, being fully alive, is like. In Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series, readers encounter the embodiment of innocence. ![]()
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