How is Dorothy related to Uncle Henry and Aunt Em?
It’s never been clearly stated just which of Dorothy’s parents they were related to, nor which is the blood relative. Glinda of Oz does say that Uncle Henry was “…Dorothy’s own uncle,” and Aunt Em is referred to as his wife, which some have taken to mean that Dorothy is most closely related to Uncle Henry, and Aunt Em married into the family (this would make sense in light of Uncle Henry’s comments about Dorothy’s dead mother in Emerald City, if Dorothy’s mother was Henry’s sister — see the previous question); but this is ambiguous enough to be interpreted in more than one way — or ignored. Also, in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Zeb, in speaking to Dorothy, refers to “your Uncle Henry’s wife,” again implying that Henry is the blood relative and Em married into the family. Some Ozmologists have even speculated that, based on their apparent ages, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em may be Dorothy’s great uncle and great aunt. But their appearances have been an invention of the illustrators, not Ba
