The Family Parlor OZ Room

This video portrays the influence Matilda Joslyn Gage had on the Oz series that deemed her the Mother of Oz.

Matilda Joslyn Gage was the mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was she who suggested he write his delightful children’s stories for publication. Gage also was his intellectual mentor, providing Baum with the social-reform vision that became the blueprint for his utopian world of Oz. “Dorothy Gage and Dorothy Gale,” originally published in Baum Bugle 28 (Autumn 1984), describes L. Frank Baum’s association with the Gage family.

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