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Princess Ozma is a fictional character from the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum. She appears for the first time in the second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), and in every Oz book thereafter. [1] She is the rightful ruler of Oz, and Baum indicated that she would reign in the fairyland forever, being immortal.
She is the title character in Ozma of Oz (1907) and The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), and makes an appearance in almost every book in the Famous Forty. In Jack Snow's 1958 novel A Murder in Oz , Ozma's Tip persona reclaims his life, causing Ozma to die, and the Wizard has to find a way to have both Tip and Ozma alive and well at the same time.
Jinnicky the Red Jinn is a character who frequently appears in Ruth Plumly Thompson's Oz books. He first appeared as "the Red Jinn" in Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929), and was reintroduced as "Jinnicky" in The Purple Prince of Oz (1932). He is depicted as a character who owns a lot of slaves and has his red body enclosed in a ginger jar.
The Lost Princess of Oz is the eleventh book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum. [1] Published on June 5, 1917, it begins with the disappearance of Princess Ozma, the ruler of Oz and covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. The introduction to the novel states that its inspiration was a letter a young girl had written to Baum ...
L. Frank Baum revisited this story for the plot of his 1913 musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, starring James C. Morton and Fred Woodward.Aside from Tik-Tok, a princess named Ozma, and a visit to the Nome King's domain, the similarities between the book and the finished play were minimal, allowing Baum to re-adapt the latter as the eighth Oz book, Tik-Tok of Oz, in 1914.
Women's rights is a primary theme of the book. The kingdom that Princess Ozma and Glinda establish is a fictional manifestation of the "matriarchate" that is described in the written works of activist Matilda Joslyn Gage (Baum's mother-in-law), [3] who has also been cited as a major influence on the Oz stories.
Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" in order to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place on Earth, full of magic. In his Oz books, Baum created the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of a wireless telegraph.
She makes a brief cameo appearance at Princess Ozma's birthday party in The Road to Oz (1909), but is otherwise only mentioned elsewhere in the series. L. Frank Baum presented her as an extremely kind and gentle character who stood against the oppression and subjugation of people.