![]() ![]() Schwartz wrote, “Even by the high standards of the world’s most menacing mothers-in-law, she set herself apart … Mrs. Baum, better known as Maud, had defied the expectations of her mother, dropping out of one of Cornell University’s first female classes to marry Baum, then a struggling actor.Īs Baum’s biographer Evan I. ![]() Instead, we are told that Gage died at the home of her youngest daughter, “Mrs. Gage was one of the earliest champions of woman’s rights in America … At age 26, she joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton in suffrage work, and became one of the suffragists’ most effective lecturers.” None of this appeared in her New York Times obituary, a mere 205-word write-up stationed below an advertisement for Tiffany & Co., that reads in part, “Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898), American suffragette and abolitionist. In her final years, Gage became a treasured ally to local native American tribes, who adopted her as one of their own. Unlike these women, who both opposed the 15th Amendment, Gage sheltered runaway slaves in her childhood and married homes. “ the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” Gloria Steinem said in Ms.Īmongst her many accomplishments, Gage wrote the first three volumes of The History of Women’s Suffrage, alongside with her contemporaries, Susan B. Frank Baum, but more importantly, she was an activist, who would be considered as radical in our day as she was in hers. Gage may be best known as the mother-in-law of Oz novelist L. The Wizard of Oz film, and the novels that inspired it, were deeply influenced by the ideology of radical feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage. This Women’s History Month, it’s time to finally pay attention to the woman behind the curtain. ![]() Morgan’s charlatan character is just one of Oz’s hidden figures. ( Mraz Center for the Performing Arts / Flickr)ĭuring an iconic moment in The Wizard of Oz, actor Frank Morgan tells Judy Garland and gang to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. ![]()
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