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This is another colorized version of the original drawings of W. W. Denslow for "The Wizard of Oz" - remember: the original pictures were conceived in black and white, not with color!

The other Good Witch of Oz, the Good Witch of the South, also gets a description - AND A NAME! Glinda. Unlike the Good Witch of the North, Glinda is noted to look young. "Beautiful", she is noted to have a "rich red" hair that falls in flowing ringlets over her shoulders, kind and blue eyes, and finally a dress of pure white (again, in the original Oz book, white was the color of Witches). Nothing more - beside the fact that she is seen sitting on a throne of ruby in the middle of her palace, since she doubles as the Queen of the Quadlings.
Now, Denslow also added to his drawings several details not told by Baum: such as Glinda wearing elbow-high gloves, or her dress being decorated with hearts at the bottom of the skirt and the end of her puffy, elbow-long sleeves, probably a detail added to show her kind and loving the Good Witch is. She even has little heart-jewels dangling from her belt. A detail that will however gain some importance in later Oz depictions of Glinda is the headwear Denslow gives Glinda. This is a fascinating and interesting headwear. Baum never says Glinda wears a crown of any sort, despite being the queen of the Quadlings, but Denslow did decide to show her royal status, while avoiding the traditional crown in favor of a more fantastical headset. But the fact this headset rises with a "point" at the top, and has dangling jewels around, seems to be also here to mimick the hat of the other Witches: the Good Witch's explicit pointy hat with little bells ; and the Wicked Witch of the West (who in Denslow's illustrations wear an immense pointy hat). Baum never describes Glinda as wearing such a hat, but Denslow seems to have wanted for all the Ozian witches to have a pointy headwear, and so decided to give to this not-crown some of the attributes of the other Witches hat. (At least, it would be my theory)

Description
This is another colorized version of the original drawings of W. W. Denslow for "The Wizard of Oz" - remember: the original pictures were conceived in black and white, not with color!

The other Good Witch of Oz, the Good Witch of the South, also gets a description - AND A NAME! Glinda. Unlike the Good Witch of the North, Glinda is noted to look young. "Beautiful", she is noted to have a "rich red" hair that falls in flowing ringlets over her shoulders, kind and blue eyes, and finally a dress of pure white (again, in the original Oz book, white was the color of Witches). Nothing more - beside the fact that she is seen sitting on a throne of ruby in the middle of her palace, since she doubles as the Queen of the Quadlings.
Now, Denslow also added to his drawings several details not told by Baum: such as Glinda wearing elbow-high gloves, or her dress being decorated with hearts at the bottom of the skirt and the end of her puffy, elbow-long sleeves, probably a detail added to show her kind and loving the Good Witch is. She even has little heart-jewels dangling from her belt. A detail that will however gain some importance in later Oz depictions of Glinda is the headwear Denslow gives Glinda. This is a fascinating and interesting headwear. Baum never says Glinda wears a crown of any sort, despite being the queen of the Quadlings, but Denslow did decide to show her royal status, while avoiding the traditional crown in favor of a more fantastical headset. But the fact this headset rises with a "point" at the top, and has dangling jewels around, seems to be also here to mimick the hat of the other Witches: the Good Witch's explicit pointy hat with little bells ; and the Wicked Witch of the West (who in Denslow's illustrations wear an immense pointy hat). Baum never describes Glinda as wearing such a hat, but Denslow seems to have wanted for all the Ozian witches to have a pointy headwear, and so decided to give to this not-crown some of the attributes of the other Witches hat. (At least, it would be my theory)