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The Aunt Jane's Nieces series was a wildly popular juvenile fiction collection written by L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, using the feminine pen name "Edith Van Dyne." This book, the last in the series, has the girls tending to wounded soldiers in the early battles of World War I..
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Now I am officially glad this series is over. This made the newspaper story seem like blazing realism. It all was completely unbelievable and I was beyond stupified at the incident when they cross the German lines to retrieve the wife of wounded soldier and are offended that they are not allowed to do as they wish. The ending was rather dark for a children's series and overall, it seems like the whole series kinda crashed into an end. I enjoyed most of them but this one not so much.
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First published in 1915
87 works; 11 members
Children's Literature 1900 - 1950 in order
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Best known as the author of the Wizard of Oz series, Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, in New York. When Baum was a young man, his father, who had made a fortune in oil, gave him several theaters in New York and Pennsylvania to manage. Eventually, Baum had his first taste of success as a writer when he staged The Maid of Arran, a show more melodrama he had written and scored. Married in 1882 to Maud Gage, whose mother was an influential suffragette, the two had four sons. Baum often entertained his children with nursery rhymes and in 1897 published a compilation titled Mother Goose in Prose, which was illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. The project was followed by three other picture books of rhymes, illustrated by William Wallace Denslow. The success of the nursery rhymes persuaded Baum to craft a novel out of one of the stories, which he titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Some critics have suggested that Baum modeled the character of the Wizard on himself. Other books for children followed the original Oz book, and Baum continued to produce the popular Oz books until his death in 1919. The series was so popular that after Baum's death and by special arrangement, Oz books continued to be written for the series by other authors. Glinda of Oz, the last Oz book that Baum wrote, was published in 1920. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
- Original publication date
- 1915
- People/Characters
- Patsy Doyle; Beth DeGraf; Louise Merrick; Uncle John Merrick; Dr. Gys; Maud Stanton (show all 9); A. Jones (Ajo); Captain Carg; Maurie
- Important places
- Belgium
- Important events
- World War I
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- Members
- 28
- Popularity
- 978,050
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 26
- ASINs
- 3
