Glinda
Sign in to saveGlinda, also known as Glinda the Good, is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum's 1900 children's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and is the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country South of the Emerald City, and protector of Princess Ozma.
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Key facts
- Character.name
- Glinda
- Character.series
- Oz
- Character.image
- The marvelous land of Oz; being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman a sequel to the Wizard of Oz (1904) (14566659598).jpg
- Character.caption
- Glinda depicted in The Marvelous Land of Oz, illustrated by John R. Neill
- Character.first
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- Character.nationality
- Ozian of Quadling descent
- Character.species
- Immortal witchSorceressFairy
- Character.gender
- Female
- Character.occupation
- Immortal and witchProtector of OzRuler of the Quadling CountryProtector of Princess Ozma, the Princess of Oz
- Character.title
- The GoodThe Good Witch of the SouthThe Sorceress of the SouthThe Royal Sorceress of Oz
- Character.creator
- L. Frank Baum
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Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- Inspiration
- Literature
- L. Frank Baum
- ''The Wicked Years''
- Film and television
- ''The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays'' (1908)
- ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939)
- ''The Wonderful Land of Oz'' (1969)
- ''Journey Back to Oz'' (1972)
- ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1982)
- ''Return to Oz'' (1985)
- ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1986)
- ''DiC's The Wizard of Oz'' (1990)
- ''Wild at Heart'' (1990)
- ''The Oz Kids'' (1996)
- ''The Muppets' Wizard of Oz'' (2005)
- ''Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz'' (2011)
- ''Supernatural'' (2013)
- ''Oz the Great and Powerful'' (2013)
- ''Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return'' (2013)
- ''RWBY'' (2013)
- ''Once Upon a Time'' (2014)
- ''Emerald City'' (2015)
- ''Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz'' (2017)
- ''Lost in Oz'' (2017)
- ''Wicked'' (2024) and ''Wicked: For Good'' (2025)
- ''Robot Chicken'' (2018 and 2020)
- ''Family Guy''
- Musicals
- ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1942)
- ''The Wiz''
- ''Wicked''
- Explanatory notes
- References
Glinda, also known as Glinda the Good, is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum's 1900 children's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and is the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country South of the Emerald City, and protector of Princess Ozma.
==Inspiration== Baum spent a great deal of time with his mother-in-law, activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who encouraged him to write down his Oz stories. Baum's biographers have drawn correlations between Baum's "Good Witch" and Gage's feminist writings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glinda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.