Dr. E's Doll Museum

Dr. E's Doll Museum Virtual Doll Museum and sister page to American Doll and Toy Museum. This is a family friendly blog for those who love dolls and toys.

The blog is a forum for all aspects of doll history, doll collecting, and doll making. It is the first step in creating a nonprofit doll center to educate the public about the historical role that dolls, the oldest human cultural artifact, play in the the lives of people all over the world.

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03/11/2026

Happy International Women’s Day! 🩵⚡️

03/11/2026

Be safe this dark and stormy night

03/09/2026
Happy Birthday Barbie from American Doll and Toy Museum
03/09/2026

Happy Birthday Barbie from American Doll and Toy Museum

01/09/2026

The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

I recently read this wonderful book for my AAUW book group. There are references to Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women, Rachel Field’s Hitty, and Rumer Godden’s The Dolls’ House, descriptions of dolls, and discussions of legal proceedings, including in the notes, allusions to Loving v. Virginia.
If ever a book were written for me, this is it. I wrote my dissertation on Pym, and Godden wrote to me when I was writing it. I also wrote a book on Pym’s work, The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym. I also wrote about The Dolls’ House, and Hitty. We have Hitty dolls in the museum collection, a Pym doll, and our favorite doll house is called Plantagenet house after Godden’s doll house family.
Here are some references in this lyrical, beautifully written novel:
P. 51: “I added Robert Hichens’s novel Strange Lady and a novel by Barbara Pym, Excellent Women, that sounded humorous.”
P. 79: The narrator brings her friend Peal who works in the fire tower a copy of Excellent Women.
P.77: Describes to “old stuffed toys” strewn across Pearl’s bed. A cloth baby doll wore a “faded flowery seersucker dress stitched up a few times.” The doll had a hand painted face. Along side the doll was a “worn, dark-brown horse with a soft golden mane, tail and matching button eyes . . . “ When she sees them, Honey, the narrator, remembers her own stuffed doll and teddy bear.
P. 141: Honey gives Bonnie, her coal miner friend Bonnie, a copy of Field’s Hitty.
P. 285: Reference to The Dolls’ House.

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10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!

10/02/2025

A little witch from Salem says Happy October!

08/14/2025

American Doll and Toy Museum will close from August 16-November 1 for vacation and museum renovations. Please IM or email if you have questions. We will reopen in November with exciting plans and new exhibits. Please view our website,, blogs, and FB pages to see our collection. Also, go to Instagram at ellen_tsagaris for more great photos and updates. Stay cool.

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