Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: In Honor of Mary Hillier

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: In Honor of Mary Hillier: The birthday of my friend and noted doll author and historian Mary Palmer Hillier was April 30th. Mary died in 1999, on Valentine's Day at ...

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: Dracula's Daughter

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: Dracula's Daughter: I saw this movie again last week; it starred Gloria Holden, 1936. Here is a photo where she is made up to look like Erzebet,and in fact, Ho...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: McKim Studios and Kimport Dolls

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: McKim Studios and Kimport Dolls: Below is a biograpy of Ruby Short McKim, which I am posting after meeting her wonderful granddaughter Merrily. I saw a program given by Me...

17 to 1000 and Patty Smith/Robert Mapplethorpe

We are near 100 viewers on this blog, too! Thanks! Am reading Just Kids, by Patty Smithy, a memoir of her life and her time with Robert Mapplethorpe. Here is a side to the story only found in serious biographies of Mapplethorpe. She was amazing on Sunday Morning; I urge everyone to download the Kindle sample, or go to Sunday Morning on line and catch the interview. She was always known as a good poet, but this is the story of two soulmates, and it is very wholesome, even pure, albeit sad. Interesting words for two 80s icons, I know, but we are not all what our press makes us out to be. It made me feel good to listen to her.

Miss Charlotte Bronte meets Miss Barbara Pym: Helpful to Feminist Writing: An Annotated Bibligra...

Miss Charlotte Bronte meets Miss Barbara Pym: Helpful to Feminist Writing: An Annotated Bibligra...: 0 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Part I: Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy, 1971. "Freud and Lacan:" This chapter is a summary of th...

Sing them Home by Stehpanie Kallos

As inspiration, read this book, which I will put into my second ed;. Doll Bibligraphy as well. Bonnie Jones in the book, seeks objects and bits and pieces of her mother's rescued journals, and catalogs them in notebooks with captions. She is seeking meaning for events in her life, a tornado, her mother's death, her own near demise from the storm. Her sister Larkin is an art history professor, who does the same analyzing ancient and medieval artwork, till she recognizes the similar pallete in a family home and a medieval painting. Then, she sees the importance of her sisters archaeology, and follows suit. There is also an artchtypal quilt, and homesteads viewd as historical sties that tell stories. Read this book if you love memoir and memories matter to you!

Miss Charlotte Bronte meets Miss Barbara Pym: PBS Does The Diary of Anne Frank

Miss Charlotte Bronte meets Miss Barbara Pym: PBS Does The Diary of Anne Frank: PBS has done a beautiful production of The Diary of Anne Frank. It is tonight on your local PBS stations, at 9, cst. My group will be doing...