Biography of nellie owens from little house
Nellie Oleson
Fictional character in the Short-lived House series
Fictional character
Nellie Oleson is a fictional character in the Little House series of autobiographical children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
She was portrayed by Alison Arngrim in the NBC television show Little Residence on the Prairie ( to ), where her role is much expanded.[citation needed] Three other girls from Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood — Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters and Stella Gilbert — were the basis for the fictional Nellie Oleson.[1]
Character sources
Nellie Owens
Owens was born on August 2, ,[2] two years after Laura Ingalls.
Nellie's parents, Margaret (–) Owens and William (–) did, as Ingalls describes, run the local mercantile in Walnut Grove, Minnesota.[3]
Later in her life, around , the Owens family moved to California; probably via the Oregon Trail.
Alison Arngrim knew she hit a nerve with her portrayal of Nellie Oleson on "Little House on the Prairie'' when she took an orange soda to the top as a year-old child celebrity riding in the Santa Claus Lane Christmas Parade in Hollywood. Arngrim took that as a compliment. On the s NBC drama beloved for its teary moments and family bonding, Arngrim was the Walnut Grove villain in the pink petticoat and blond ringlets. A bully, a snot, a pioneers-era mean girl.In they went to Tillamook, Oregon, where Nellie taught educational facility and in married[3] Henry Francis Kirry (–). They moved to Bay City, Oregon, and had three children; Zola (–), Lloyd (–) and Leslie (–). Soon, the Kirrys changed their abode again by moving to Rainier, Oregon, in [3] Her brother Willie went blind from a firecracker explosion, attended a educational facility for the blind, married, and also had three children.
There seems to be no indication that Laura ever saw Nellie Owens again after Laura's family left Walnut Grove in Nellie died on November 2, , in Oregon and is buried in Forest View Cemetery in Forest Grove, Oregon.[2][3]
Genevieve Masters
The second girl, Genevieve Masters, was born November 12, , in Hornby, Steuben County, New York[2] and was the spoiled daughter of Laura's former teacher.
Genevieve wore beautifully tailored clothes and had striking blonde curly hair, just as "Nellie Oleson" had. Genevieve boasted continually about how much more proper and "civilized" things were in the "East". With her superior attitude, Genevieve was far nastier than Nellie Owens had been, and Laura and Genevieve became keen rivals, both academically and socially.
Gennie's family moved to De Smet not long after the Ingalls family, but the Owens family did not move. Therefore, the "Nellie" of Little Town on the Prairie is most likely Genevieve Masters. In her "Letter to Children" written late in her life (a sort of build letter sent to the hundreds of children who wrote her monthly), Laura stated: "Nellie Oleson .
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This article was or is on the Front Page! Keep Up The Superb Work! Nellie has two siblings, Willie and adopted sister Nancy. She married Percival Dalton and had two children with him.. moved back East, and did not live many years."[citation needed] Laura was referring to Genevieve Masters in this letter as Nellie Owens lived to the age of Masters married William Graham V. Renwick () and had one daughter, Margaret ().[2]
Genevieve died of pneumonia on November 7, , in Chicago,[2] just 5 days before her 42nd birthday.
Her remains were brought back to De Smet, South Dakota, and buried in the local cemetery.
Stella Gilbert
The third girl, Stella Gilbert, born in May , lived on a claim north of the Ingallses in De Smet.
She was reportedly very attractive and was very interested in Almanzo Wilder. She was possibly the girl who convinced him to take her on several buggy rides, which were described in These Happy Golden Years.
Subscribe for updates! Click Here! To me, Nellie epitomizes not only the attitude of privilege, but also someone who didn't contain a pioneering spirit nor the drive to settle the unsettled land. She did however append the acerbic element that the books needed to prevent them from becoming too sweet on the societal level.Almanzo, who was not aware of a conflict between Stella (Nellie in the books) and Laura, eventually became aware of Stella's apprehension of horses (which disgusted him). In addition, Laura eventually gave Almanzo an ultimatum regarding Stella, and Almanzo's invitations to Stella to join them on the rides stopped.
This was the last appearance of "Nellie Oleson" in the series.[citation needed]
Stella's older brother was Dave Gilbert, the brave year-old who made the very risky run to Lake Preston, Dakota Territory, on his horse-drawn sled between blizzards to take the outgoing mail and bring back the incoming mail, as described by Laura in The Long Winter.
Stella died in at the age of [2]
Fictional Nellie
Little House books (Biography, non-fiction)
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Nellie Oleson appeared in three of the Little House novels: On the Banks of Plum Creek (), Little Town on the Prairie (), and These Happy Golden Years () — the fourth, seventh, and eighth in the series.
She was one of three women the character Nellie Oleson of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder was based on. Nellie Owens was a year younger than Laura Ingalls and had a younger brother named Willie, just as the character of Nellie Oleson did in the books.
Laura is 13 to 15 years old in the two intervening novels. On the Banks of Plum Creek alone is put in Minnesota, near Walnut Grove where the long-running television series is set. In that novel Laura is 7 to 9 years old.[4][clarification needed]
Oleson also stars in Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls, a book by Tui T.
Sutherland (as Heather Williams), published by HarperCollins in The Library of Congress catalog summary is "Wealthy, spoiled Nellie Oleson is only happy when she is the center of attention, and so she feels enraged and left out when Laura Ingalls, a poor country teen, moves to Walnut Grove and is embraced by Nellie's friends and schoolteacher."[5]Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls is one among dozens of Little House series extensions published beginning in the s.[citation needed]
Little House on the Prairie television series
Main article: Little Residence on the Prairie (TV series)
Soap opera character
The Little House books were later adapted into a long-running television series.
Played by actress Alison Arngrim, Nellie Oleson was a manipulative, witty, sharp-tongued character on the NBC television show, Little House on the Prairie.
Nellie Oleson - Wikipedia: Nellie Oleson is a pretend character in the Little Home series of autobiographical children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was portrayed by Alison Arngrim in the NBC television show Little House on the Prairie ( to ), where her role is much expanded.Her parents, Nels and Harriet Oleson, owned the mercantile in the small town of Walnut Grove, set in post-Civil WarMinnesota. Early in the series, the character of Nellie closely resembled her counterpart from the books - mainly as portrayed in On the Banks of Plum Creek. She had long, elaborately curled hair, acted very prissy and spoiled - yet underneath, she could display a cruel and manipulative personality.
Nellie took after her doting mother Harriet (Katherine MacGregor), while father Nels (Richard Bull) tended to be more stern with his two children and had little tolerance for Nellie's often cruel antics. Nels and Harriet frequently conflicted on the rearing of both Nellie and Willie (Jonathan Gilbert); Harriet's assertiveness frequently won out, although Nellie was not always allowed to get away with her behavior.
For example, on the episode called "The Cheaters", Mrs. Oleson finds out Nellie has cheated and started hitting Nellie with her jacket, while chasing her out of the schoolyard.[citation needed]
Arngrim's character grew in importance during the series (as did the roles of the entire Oleson family) as she served as a perfect antagonist to honest, tomboyish Laura Ingalls, played by Melissa Gilbert.
Nellie and Laura feuded during their school years together, which was at times comically paralleled with quarreling between the two girls' mothers, Harriet Oleson and Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle).
After Nellie graduated from school, her mother Harriet bestowed her with her own restaurant and hotel.
To slightly cover her identity, Laura changed her last name in her books. Owens are buried in the Fairview Pioneer Cemetery in Tillamook. I remember in a Tillamook High School class, teacher Dan Davy taking us up above the current Fairview Cemetery into the forest where under the overgrowth he showed us the oldest known cemetery in Tillamook. We dug through the overgrowth to find names and headstones of the pioneers.At first, Nellie balked, exhibiting great incompetence in the hospitality business. Eventually, Nels and Harriet hired Percival Dalton (played by Steve Tracy) to help Nellie learn how to cook and run the restaurant. During this time, Nellie began maturing and mellowing — thanks to Percival's work with her and Nels' values partially winning out over Harriet's — and fell in love with Percival.
The two eventually married, and Nellie gave birth to twin children (Benjamin and Jennifer).[citation needed]
Nellie becomes approachable with Laura in her elder years and Laura attended her wedding. Before Nellie takes off for her honeymoon, she throws the bouquet to Laura.
In the episode "Come Let us Reason Together", Laura's mother Caroline helped deliver Nellie's twin babies.[citation needed]
Arngrim left the series at the end of the seventh season.
Nellie Oleson was the name Laura gave to her biggest rival in On the Banks of Plum Creek, Short-lived Town on the Prairie and These Happy Golden Years. But Nellie Oleson was actually based on three schoolmates from Laura’s childhood, so she would not have to name them personally in the books.
Nellie's resulting departure was explained by having her move with Percival and their twins to New York to run the family business when Percival's father falls ill; the move is made immortal when Percival's father dies. After Nellie's departure became permanent, the Olesons adopted a daughter named Nancy (played by Allison Balson), who bore a striking resemblance to Nellie, although she had a nastier and meaner disposition than Nellie.
Nellie—who retained her pleasant personality seen in her later years—returned in the ninth season and met Nancy, who briefly ran away from dwelling when she (mistakenly) believed that her adoptive parents loved Nellie more than her.
When Nellie first meets Nancy and sees how she acts, she asks her parents in shock: "I know I was temperamental at her age, but I wasn't that bad was I?" They all start to laugh, then they realize she was as bad.[citation needed]
Compared to the publication On the Banks of Plum Creek, the series presented Nellie Oleson as a much more prominent character.
In the books, Nellie's family members are very minor characters, whereas the Olesons became major figures on the series, with several episodes focusing on Nellie or her family. Eventually, the "villainous duo" of mother Harriet and daughter Nellie proved to be very famous with viewers for their often evil, yet humorous, antics.[citation needed]
Other screenings
Cultural impact
The sketch comedy community The Nellie Olesons took their name after the character.[citation needed][7][8]