![]() ![]() ![]() Her final destination is an antique shop in New York, where she takes advantage of nearby ink and quill pen to write her memoir. After being misplaced in the country, she realizes she is back in Maine in the Prebles’ home although the family is long gone. Seven-year-old Phoebe is tasked with making clothes for her doll, which include a chemise embroidered with HITTY “so she can always be sure of her name.” This is fortunate because Hitty has a series of incredible adventures that take her to the South Seas, worshipped as a goddess by an indigenous tribe, claimed by an Indian snake-charmer, owned by missionaries, abandoned in Philadelphia, rescued by a Quaker girl, introduced to John Greenleaf Whittier, beautifully dressed by a seamstress in New York, dropped at the feet of Charles Dickens, lost in a haystack in Rhode Island, modeling for an artist, attending Mardi Gras, stolen from a Cotton Exposition, thrown into the Mississippi River, mailed to New York, turned into a pincushion, and given a home by a doll collector. Description: Hitty is a doll hand-carved from a small piece of mountain-ash wood by a peddler in early 19th century Maine, then given to Phoebe Preble, whose father is away at sea. ![]()
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