Miss Pym and a Friend

Miss Pym and a Friend

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Doll Museum: The 19th c. Continued; Wax dolls

Doll Museum: The 19th c. Continued; Wax dolls: Wax Religious or Devotional doll, 18th c, Antique Doll Collector Magazine For my money, Mary Hillier's book on Wax Dolls is the best...

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: New Alexander Ada Lovelace

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: New Alexander Ada Lovelace: See below: This fully articulated 10" classic Cissette doll is dressed as the famous Ada Lovelace, mid 19th c. founder of scientific c...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: New Alexander Ada Lovelace

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: New Alexander Ada Lovelace: See below: This fully articulated 10" classic Cissette doll is dressed as the famous Ada Lovelace, mid 19th c. founder of scientific c...

I Couldn't have Said it Better: In Memory of my Mother, the most Excellent Woman of All

I love Anne Rice, and she and I have a lot in common. The following quote on the death of her mother sums up everything I feel about losing mine, enough said: ''It's difficult for me to discuss it,'' she said. ''I'm not really ready yet. When I lost my mother I lost the one person in the world who was really interested in me, interested in me in a selfless way. I took it all for granted.'' I thought my Mom was immortal; she wasn't.

Monday, September 15, 2014

View Catalog Item - Theriault's Antique Doll Auctions

This wonderful doll has historic ties, attributed to Julia Ward Beecher, doll maker, through Beecher, she has ties to Julia Ward Howe and Harriet Beecher Stowe.





View Catalog Item - Theriault's Antique Doll Auctions

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Thursday, September 11, 2014

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: September 11, 2013

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: September 11, 2013: Once again, we are forced to remember a grim holiday no one wanted, and yet, how can we forget? As I played bridge prisoner today and navig...

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Joan Rivers

We celebrate the life of Joan Rivers, friend of a friend, who proved that having a passion, something to love, provided a woman success and a good life, even if you didn't have a man in it. Our mutual acquaintance called her "the best dressed woman in Hollywood," quite a compliment for one who lived into her 80s. And, we celelbrate Lauren Bacall, who visited my home town a few years ago, and who mesmerized with that honeyed, roaring voice. We loved her as the mother of another excellent woman in "The Mirror has Two Faces," a film of which Pym would have approved. There will be more posts on the Excellent Women of TV in the fifties and sixties, shows that Pym must have seen and speculated about.