When the baby died in November that year Maud was devastated. Maud had always wanted a daughter and became fond of the infant, making frequent visits in 1898 when Dorothy was born. While he was writing the book Maud’s brother Thomas Gage and his wife Sophie had a daughter they named Dorothy. It started in Kansas, where he had once been stuck during a theatre tour, but sent his main protagonist Dorothy to another world full of magical people and creatures. It sold well and gave him the courage to write his own fairy tale - a modernised story with a distinct American flavour. He began with his Mother Goose In Prose, a 1897 retelling of familiar rhymes as stories. But perhaps the greatest memorial to the tragic baby is Baum’s story, a musical version of which opens this weekend at the Capitol Theatre.Ī first-edition volume of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was first published May 17, 1900.
In 1998 a new black granite headstone was unveiled and part of the cemetery was later named the Dorothy L. Her discovery made the papers and when the local community became aware of the grave a group of people, including Mickey Carroll who played a munchkin in the 1939 film version of Baum’s most famous book, began raising money for a new headstone. Wagner immediately made the connection between the name of the infant, who had died in 1898, and the character Dorothy Gale in Baum’s famous books. The girl’s name was Dorothy Gage, granddaughter of Matilda, but also niece of Maud Baum (nee Gage) wife of author L. Wagner noticed a headstone in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois, US, belonging to a girl who died at the age of five months. He wrote several sequels and numerous other kinds of books under a pseudonym.I n 1996 academic Dr Sally Roesch Wagner, who was researching the life of Matilda Joslyn Gage, suffragist, abolitionist and advocate for Native American rights, made an interesting discovery. The Wizard of Oz, based on their favourite bedtime story about a land of Oz, was published in 1900 and it immediately became a huge international success.
He enjoyed making up stories, particularly for his own children. With a charming introduction by award-winning Cornelia Funke, The Wizard of Oz is one of the twenty wonderful classics being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2015.
Together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion whom she meets on the way, Dorothy embarks on a strange and enchanting adventure. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully mysterious Wizard of Oz. Book Synopsis Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. About the Book Complete and unabridged-P.
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