![]() ![]() 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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