Matilda Gage Inspires Oz Witches

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How Matilda Gage, history's long lost suffragist, inspired the witches of Oz

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L. Frank Baum's mother-in-law Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage was a suffragette who co-founded National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton .

Gage railed against religious leaders and politicians for oppressing women by accusing them of witchcraft.

Gage’s unwavering radical views removed her from her rightful place in history, especially due to deliberate actions taken by Susan B. Anthony to distance her from the suffragist movement altogether.

But through the work of her son-in-law, she formed a different kind of legacy.

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