Not always a child in some cases, shes an adult with a Kitsch Collection. Seeing her kneeling or sitting surrounded by her dolls, with a sad look on her face, adds to her Woobie factor. "I think that the reason that the books worked so well for children is in a sense they were written by a person who was a child herself. A friendless female character who, to ease her loneliness, spends her time making or collecting dolls. Wright, who died in 2001, "was working out many of the things that troubled her through these stories," Nathan says. that then came out in these children's books," the biographer says.
"All of her stories turn on aspects of her own childhood, the fears of punishment and being abandoned. In 1957, Doubleday and Company published Dare’s The Lonely Doll, a series of photographic illustrations featuring Edith and the bears. "I think that was the central trauma of Dare's life, losing both her father and her brother as a young child, and was something that stayed with her throughout her life," Nathan says.
Her parents were divorced when Wright was three years old, resulting in her separation from her older brother. Wright's troubled childhood was reflected in the Lonely Doll books. Nathan discusses Dare's life with NPR's Steve Inskeep. Nathan has written The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, a biography of the late author and photographer Dare Wright, who created a series of popular children's books that scores of girls grew up with from the 1950s to the 1980s. The children's title featured photos of a doll named Edith and stuffed bears who looked so authentic that Nathan believed Edith was a real girl. Get the best deals for doll edith the lonely doll at. When she was growing up, author Jean Nathan learned to read with a book called The Lonely Doll.
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