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Aunt Jane’s Nieces is a story about young women. The novel was the first in its series written for young adults. Jane Merrick is a rich, aged, ill woman who is nearly dying. She got her wealth and estate from her fiancé, Thomas Bradley, who died before their marriage. She has no children, so she calls for her three young nieces so that she can choose who will inherit her wealth and estate. Aunt Jane’s Nieces is one of the masterpieces of Lyman Frank Baum. He was born in Chittenango, New York into an ardent Methodist family. He had a German, Scots, Irish, and English descent. His name, Lyman, was the name of his uncle, he doesn’t want to be called as such and chose to be called by his middle name, Frank. He was also greatly known for his pseudonyms L. Frank Baum, George Brooks, Louis F. Baum, Laura Bancroft, Suzanne Metcalf, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald, Schuyler Staunton, Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, and John Estes Cooke. He was an author, newspaper editor, actor, screenwriter, and film producer. His main themes are fantasy, poetry, and short stories. He is incredibly eminent for his fantasy novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. After writing the novel, he wrote another thirteen novels as its sequel. His writings awaited subsequent hundred years mundane such as television, augmented reality, laptop computers in The Master Key, wireless telephones in Tik-Tok of Oz, women in dangerous, perilous, action filled jobs in Mary Louise in the Country, and the pervasiveness of exhibiting on apparels in Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Work. He started his career in writing at an early age when his father bought him a small printing press. His brother Henry ‘Harry’ Clay Baum helped him write The Rose Lawn Home Journal. The brothers wrote many issues of the journal, published and sold those issues. As a young adult, he was encouraged to write more books all throughout his lifetime.

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