Jennie

Jennie asked Patricia C. Wrede:

While reading "The Thirteenth Child" I was reminded of the family in Gene Stratton-Porter's "Laddie" in many ways. Did you receive any inspiration from that book while writing about Eff and her family?

Patricia C. Wrede No. I vaguely remember reading most of Gene Stratton-Porter's books about forty years ago, but they weren't fresh in my mind and I didn't reread them while I was writing "Thirteenth Child." I remember the books chiefly because my mother was the eighth of ten children from a farm family, and Stratton-Porter's portrayal felt very like the aunts, uncles, and cousins I grew up around.

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I would love to find out, but how did the whole Grand Bow dam problem turned out? Did Eff have kids? If she did, how many and if one of them turned out to be a double 7 (either a double 7 daughter or a double 7 child like her)?

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