Chapter I. The wish. "Oh, if I had but a live doll," cried little Ellen, "how happy I should be!"
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a "SELECT BOOK Suitable for Young Persons."
A book about morality and character-building based on a creepy premise: a wealthy six-year-old girl wishes for a living doll. Her parents adopt an orphan and give her to the child, who then owns, educates and supervises her. The language is surprisingly readable, suitable for an eight or ten-year-old today
Publish Date
1830
Publisher
William Darton and Son, Holborn Hill
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Sisters, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, adoptionTimes
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added by Katharine Hadow.
"As soon as the child can run alone, she will live entirely with you, and then your important duties will commence, but then you will be a twelvemonth older, and you will always have the advantage of my assistance and advice, in the management of your doll's health and improvement."
added by Katharine Hadow.
Describes the conditions under which Ellen receives her "doll."
"(W)hen Mrs. Smith came to see Fanny, she brought her some sweet things....I said to her: 'Do not bring Fanny those things again; mamma says they are unwholesome.' She answered, 'I will not bring them again, Miss, if you do not like her to eat them." Still, I thought she did not look pleased;....Mrs. Smith has been here this morning, you know, and just now, when I took hold of Fanny's hand, it felt quite sticky: I said, 'What have you been eating?' she answered, "Nothing, little mamma,' but she colored, and then said: 'mother told me not to tell.' Now, mamma, what is the use of all the pains I take to make my doll good and sincere, if her mother does these things?" Tears of vexation ran down Ellen's cheeks as she spoke.
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added by Katharine Hadow.
Mrs. Smith is "mother," that is, Fanny's lower-class birth mother. Ellen, a child, scolds her for bringing candy. And Ellen still calls the young child "my doll."
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