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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