Author L. Frank Baum
ePublisher Gutenberg
Free eBook
This year was the 50th Anniversary for the Wizard of OZ. Having read the series as a child, I thought it would be nice to expand my reading history beyond OZ. It was nice, just a bit junior…
1914, Mr. Baum wrote about these three Nieces as far west of New York as possible; California! Yep, I was expecting stage coaches and got movie sets instead. That was lots of fun – the movie industry was just starting and it seemed as wild as I’d thought the wild west was going to be.
I also appreciated how Mr. Baum wrote the young Ladies, strong, determined and independent. They respected their family, were polite, treated others with respect and managed to graciously carve their own path in life. Again, not what I was expecting. I had thought at the turn of the 20th century, women, especially young ladies, were still very much “protected”, “guided” and ”sheltered”, yet these were not written that way.
I would have certainly enjoyed this series as a child and I am sorry to have only found them now. None the less, I’ve loaded several onto my eReader for my own nieces to read, giggle over and quiz me on what life was like back then. (They ask, I’m not offended – I lie to them a lot about that kind of thing…)
Link to Author information; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum#Bibliography
Link to Gutenberg; http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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