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An edition of Our Landlady (1941)

Our Landlady

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From January 1890 to February 1891 Baum wrote a column entitled "Our Landlady" that ran regularly in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. In all, he wrote forty-eight installments, each treating with practiced naivete the problems facing the brand-new state of South Dakota. Through his fictional landlady, Sairy Ann Bilkins, Baum commented on drought, railroads, suffrage, prairie populism, the Ghost Dance Movement, prohibition, and dozens of other matters.

Together, the "Our Landlady" columns constitute a satirical history of South Dakota's troubled first year.

Baum's genius as a fiction writer can be clearly seen in four of his recurring characters. Mrs. Bilkins runs for mayor, alternately feeds and starves her boarders, and keeps track of everybody else's business. She harbors a secret passion for one of her boarders, the cigar-smoking Colonel. She nags Tom, the clerk who habitually fails to pay his rent. She chides the Doctor about the flimflammery of American medicine.

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English
Pages
285

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Cover of: Our Landlady
Our Landlady
May 1, 1999, University of Nebraska Press
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Cover of: Our landlady
Our landlady
1996, University of Nebraska Press
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Cover of: L. Frank Baum's "Our landlady"

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
285
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
Weight
14.4 ounces

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OL7905621M
Internet Archive
ourlandlady00baum
ISBN 10
080326156X
ISBN 13
9780803261563
OCLC/WorldCat
59668871
Library Thing
1657279
Goodreads
998766

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