“In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.”

— L. Frank Baum

Aunt Jane's Nieces (1906)
Novels published under the pseudonym Edith van Dyne

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Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856–1919

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