Theosophist & major 19th c feminist MJG finally did get a bio. It's good to see that she's getting more notice recently. I read this - quite an eye-opening experience - gives a decent picture of what life was like as a social activist back then. Whatever one happens to think about her, her importance for American history is considerable, both mainstream and alternative. The book is short and basic, but a solid groundbreaking effort. A more comprehensive work could go three times longer and help give her the place in history that she deserves... Although her house has been an historical study center for twenty years and they've done good work, there's still gaps in research on her life, so plenty of work still needed to be done...
Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage,Radical Suffragist
Angelica Shirley Carpenter, 2018
Witness to Rebellion
Angelica Carpenter’s picture book, The Voice of Liberty, pays homage to the ideological ancestors of those now marching in the
streets for justice through the story of a protest staged by women’s
rights activists at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Influence on L. Frank Baum – Zoom (Live)
The Radical Feminist Behind the Curtain
There’s something magical about The Wizard of Oz; it isn’t
the witchcraft or the wizardry, but that the story revolves around a
girl who realizes her inner strength. For this, you can thank radical
feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Quoting Matilda: The Words and History of a Forgotten Suffragist
Susan Savion, Mar 17th, 2022
March 1, 2023 in Women at the Center 
Great article on Matilda Joslyn Gage's influence on Wizard of Oz & more
She was an ardent suffragist, abolitionist, and advocate for Indigenous
rights, who held more radical views than many of her contemporaries.
Gage’s writing explored the historical suppression of women’s power and
intellect—including the history of the witch archetype.
Matilda Joslyn Gage: The suffragist who defied the US government
Laura Byrne Paquet July 4, 2023
Nice, lengthy
illustrated article for 4th of July
The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Influence on Women's Rights
was presented by, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner Executive Director of Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation. 2023
Central New York's Hidden Heroine Matilda Joslyn Gage & the Women's Suffrage Movement, March 13, 2024
Zora E. L. Fenton, (2010).
No Witch Is a Bad Witch: A Commentary on the Erasure of Matilda Joslyn
Gage. SoCal Interdisciplinary Law Journal 20 (1), 21–38
Whatever the relationship between Baum and his mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Gage, a staunch critic of the Nineteenth Century Christian witch hunts, was likely the inspiration for the empowering ―good witch in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Glinda, the good witch, let Dorothy know that she always had the ―power to return home.18 At the time leading up to and during Joslyn Gage‘s life, ―witches‖ too often were educated women who challenged existing power structures;this is precisely what JoslynGage did by challenging the church in its support of witch hunts. gould.usc.edu/why/students/o
In 2000, Gage's house was transformed into the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, in order to continue to research and inform about her work and legacy.
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