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1.
Life like Dolls: The Collector Doll Phenomenon and the Lives of the Women Who Love Them
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2004
Subjects:
Dolls--Collectors And Collecting--Psychological Aspects
Women--United States--Psychology
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...when I first met her in 1994, at a doll fair. She was minding the local club's display, a big chipboard doll house filled with an assortment of “seriousU...nineteenth-century china-faced German doll that cost $700. It was small and...
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Created in Our Image: The Miniature Body of the Doll as Subject and Object
Contributors:
Publisher:
Lehigh University Press 1998
Subjects:
Literature--Psychological Aspects
Split Self In Literature
Miniature Dolls In Literature
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...were really too big for the doll's house. They didn't lookas though...whodo not figure in “The Doll's House.” However, in an...children in “TheDoll's House.”The unnatural doll family unfortunately mars the...
3.
The Fashion Doll: From Bebe Jumeau to Barbie
Contributors:
Publisher:
Berg 2004
Subjects:
Fashion Dolls
Fashion Dolls--Social Aspects
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...was the quintessential spirit of the early Barbie doll herself (Houston­Montgomery 1999...Ruth Handler asa suitable consultant in developing doll lines, as Mattel had no in-house dollexpertise when the Barbie project was launched...
4.
Short Novels | Love among the Haystacks | The Ladybird | The Fox | The Captain's Doll - Vol. 1
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Publisher:
Heinemann 1956
Subjects:
Fiction
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...No, she was not going to send her the doll. The little ladyshould never have the doll.What a doll she would make herself! Heavens, what awizened...Hepburn still called occasionally at the house forhis post. The maid always put his letters...
5.
The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Alabama Press 2007
Subjects:
Communication In Politics--United States
Rhetoric--United States
Democracy--United States
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...woman who actually lives two1068blocks from my house who saw two Hispanic males1069leaving a house and putting a bag into their car.1070She said...walking out1080of a room that he rents in that house after1081having lunch. And what was in his...
6.
Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Contributors:
Publisher:
Macmillan 1910
Subjects:
Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Chicago (Ill.)--Social Conditions
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...found in a pro­fessional house and asked us to shelter for...witness, wasclutching a battered doll which she had kept withher during...women whom I knew came to Hull-House to ask that heryoung sister...decent pleasures" that Hull-House afforded.After the arrangement...
7.
Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press 2012
Subjects:
United States. Congress. House--Speakers--History
Political Parties--United States--History
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...related to the organization of the House.We could not tell the story...a ma­tryoshka nesting doll. As conceived by Martin Van...organization. The outermost doll should bethe president of the...00ADnizational politics of the House with the nationwide political...
8.
Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rodopi 2006
Subjects:
Home In Literature
Dwellings--Psychological Aspects
Architecture, Domestic--Psychological Aspects
Home In Popular Culture
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...1993), Susan Stewart describes the doll's house as a [housewithin a house]:[It...imposed confinement centred upon a doll's house, whichdominated the small space of...bedroom was spent playing with their doll's house. June
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Jean Toomer and the Prison-House of Thought: A Phenomenology of the Spirit
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press 1993
Subjects:
Philosophy in Literature
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967--Philosophy
Phenomenology and Literature
African Americans in Literature
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...and Mary, arepatterned after Torvald andNora in A Doll's House. Like Torvald, John ispretentious and egotistic...Mary, like Nora, grows in stature and resolve. InA Doll's House, Nora's climactic decision to leave her family is...
10.
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press 1999
Subjects:
Women and Literature--England--History--19th Century
Domestic Fiction, English--History and Criticism
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters--Women
Fathers and Daughters in Literature
Daughters in Literature
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters--Daughters
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...halting,on a pair of dashes; Bleak House, too, fading away, melting away...as Esther might answer, and Bleak House'slast word is Esther's —...Esther, now diminutized,is put in a doll's house version of the first “Bleak...
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