Maud Baum

~• was a student at Cornell c.1882 when she attended the opening of The Maid of Aran at Syracuse, her future husband's play

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHXV-XFN

There are more photos of her, one as an infant, perhaps I will add it later. Janet Milburn 4/20/21 PS There is most likely information that can be added on her life. Wikipedia?

Her life is honored in the following:

• PBS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE; American Oz; Season 33 Episode 4 | 1h 52m 52s
  • https://www.pbs.org/video/american-oz-cvqd3p/

See more about her in the wikipedia listing for her mother.

Theosophy

The influence of Theosophy in the writing of L. Frank Baum (and those of her mother) is reflected int his analysis:
https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Witchcraft_of_Mary-Marie
"Background
The story conforms to Baum's (and Matilda Joslyn Gage's) general metaphysic. At first, Mary-Marie believes that all witches are old, ugly, and evil; but her misapprehensions are quickly corrected. The connections between witches and Satan is dismissed as folly, as Baum's Theosophist religion did not allow the existence of such a character."

"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie" is a short story by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was first published in the 1908 Bobbs-Merrill edition of Baum's American Fairy Tales, and was reprinted in the Autumn 1994 edition of The Baum Bugle, with new illustrations by Eric Shanower. The text can be read on the Hungry Tiger Press website. see: http://www.hungrytigerpress.com/tigertales/tigertale054.shtml

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7001576/maud_baum