Books/Writings
The Wonderful Mother of Oz
“Write the stories you tell your children,” Matilda Joslyn Gage advised her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum. Gage also shared the vision of peace and social justice that inspired the feminist utopia Baum later created in his Wizard of Oz series. In The Wonderful Mother of Oz, Sally Roesch Wagner examines the remarkable relationship between Baum and the Gage family. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation that examines different aspects of Gage’s life and work.
Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.
Format: Paperback; 24 pp
Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation (Text copyright 2003 by Sally Roesch Wagner)
