Which it was, in its charming way: L. Frank Baum, who wrote the 1900 book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its 13 follow-ups, was the son-in-law of the pioneering feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, and her influence permeates the Oz books, which take flight with a brave girl who saves her friends and their land.
Gage began her public involvement in the three prominent reform causes of the time the abolition of slavery, temperance, and women's rights by contributing letters to newspapers and speaking whenever she was afforded the opportunity.
Ms. Gage really knows her blondes.
Although states may enact laws that purport to make recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance mandatory, as Beverly Gage mentions in her review of "The Pledge" ("Under God... or Not," Oct. 17), it is important to note that the Supreme Court struck down such a law in 1943, in the case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette.
Shelden was passive and compliant; a fellow-inmate at the Gage County jail described her as a "Cabbage Patch doll come to life".
With the cruel bombing of Sept. 16, 1920, as her centerpiece, Gage provides a wider survey of industrial warfare in the United States.
As Jennifer Greenburg, a professional photographer, set up her tripod at Mr. Burke's Gage Park offices, she surveyed her surroundings with a practiced eye.
According to Ms. Williams, Mr. Gage frittered away $10 million of her money on alcohol, gambling and failed business ventures.
In 1893, Matilda Joslyn Gage took time out from her participation in the Revising Committee to write Woman, Church and State, a book which challenged traditional Judeo-Christian teaching that women were the source of sin, and that sex was sinful.
We wish to extend our heartfelt sympathies to her daughters, Rachel Rutherford and Alixandra Gage Englund.
