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From: Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her BooksPart I. I have promised the children to write something for them about their favourite story-teller, Juliana Horatia Ewing, because I am sure they will like to read it. I well remember how eagerly I devoured the Life...
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From: The Annotated Wizard of Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of OzNo children's book of the twentieth century has proven to be as popular or as controversial as The Wizard of Oz. When Bobbs-Merrill issued their first edition in 1903, a reviewer remarked: "Mr. L. Frank Baum's last...
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From: The New RepublicI have been for several weeks bogged in Oz books. It had seemed to me, at first, a simple matter to go back to the two I read as a boy of ten, The Wizard of Oz and The Land of Oz ..., and write down what Oz revisited was...
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From: Representations[(essay date winter 1988) In the following essay, Culver examines Baum's depiction of the emerging consumerist culture of his time in both The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows, which...
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From: Mrs. EwingI. Mother and Daughter: Margaret Gatty and Julie Gatty The history of Juliana Horatia Ewing must begin with the history of her mother, for out of her mother's writing developed the daughter's. She took over her...
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From: Marvels & Tales[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Briggs studies Andersen's reception in England and his impact on English authors and literature.] "The Flying Trunk" is a story about the effects of storytelling, and in this...