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''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.〔"Schuyler Staunton," ''Daughters of Destiny'', Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1906.〕 (Baum arrived at the name by adding one letter to the name of his late maternal uncle, Schuyler Stanton.)〔Katharine M. Rogers, ''L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography'', New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002; p. 135.〕 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''.〔David Maxine, ed., ''Oz-story Magazine'' No. 4 (October 1998), p. 3.〕 ==Adult Fiction== Overall, Baum dedicated his literary career to writing for children. For a brief period in the middle of the twentieth century's first decade, though, he made a concentrated effort to write for an adult audience as well. This effort produced two other novels in addition to ''Daughters of Destiny'' — ''The Fate of a Crown'' (1905), the first Schuyler Staunton novel, and ''The Last Egyptian'' (1908), published anonymously. Writing to entertain, Baum chose exotic locales and melodramatic elements for these books. ''The Fate of a Crown'' is set in Brazil, and deals with the revolution of 1889; ''Daughters of Destiny'' is set even farther afield, in Baluchistan. In Baum's fiction, Baluchistan is still an independent state, though the region had fallen under the sway of the British Empire in the later nineteenth century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daughters of Destiny (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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