Daughters of Destiny (novel)

Daughters of Destiny
First edition
AuthorL. Frank Baum
(as "Schuyler Staunton")
IllustratorThomas Mitchell Pierce
Harold DeLay
LanguageEnglish
GenreAdventure fiction
PublisherReilly & Britton
Publication date
1906
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages319 pp.

Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books. Baum published the novel under the pen name "Schuyler Staunton," one of his several pseudonyms.[1] (Baum arrived at the name by adding one letter to the name of his late maternal uncle, Schuyler Stanton.)[2]

The 1906 edition of the book featured eight illustrations, three by Thomas Mitchell Pierce and five by Harold DeLay. Pierce was a son-in-law of Baum's sister Harriet Alvena Baum Neal; he contributed illustrations to Baum's 1898 poetry collection By the Candelabra's Glare.

Baum had originally intended to call his novel The Girl in the Harem.[3]

  1. ^ "Schuyler Staunton," Daughters of Destiny, Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1906.
  2. ^ Katharine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002; p. 135.
  3. ^ David Maxine, ed., Oz-story Magazine No. 4 (October 1998), p. 3.