Mary Elizabeth Lease - End of Life

End of Life

She divorced her husband in 1902 and spent the rest of her life with one or another of her children in the East until her death in 1939.

Literary scholar Brian Attebery claimed Mary Elizabeth Lease to have been the model for Dorothy in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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