“But girls often marry when they are too young," exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; "so, if you don't object to my age —”

— L. Frank Baum

"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie", in Baum's American Fairy Tales (1908)
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Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856–1919

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