Dorothy

Origin
Dorothy Gale is a fictional character, the protagonist of many of the Oz novels by American author L. Frank Baum (as well as his successors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Frank Joslyn Baum, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, Rachel R. Cosgrove, and Eloise and Lauren McGraw) and best friend of Oz's ruler, Princess Ozma, who named Dorothy as a Princess of Oz. Dorothy first appears in Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels. She also is the main character in the classic 1939 movie adaptation of the book. Most people nowadays recognize Dorothy's iconic appearance, wearing a blue and white checked gingham dress and her hair in pigtails, though in the early to mid Twentieth Century, she was better known for wearing her blonde hair in a bob and dressing in a white frock with either a broad-brimmed hat or her royal coronet. Dorothy's adventures continue. In later books Oz steadily becomes more familiar to her than her homeland of Kansas, and indeed, Dorothy eventually goes to live in a suite of rooms in the Royal Palace, but only once Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have settled in a farmhouse on the outskirts of the Emerald City, having become unable to pay the mortgage on their house in Kansas.

Golden Age Appearances
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