Memoirs of a London doll
Memoirs of a London doll, by Richard Henry Horne, edited by Mrs. Fairstar, introduced by Clara Whitehill Hunt and illustrated by Enna L. Brock.
" In two seconds I was miles and miles away from the dusty shelves of the prosaic library on the clattering, commonplace Brooklyn street. I was up in the Sprats' garret room, under the eaves of the dingy tenement on the dusky London street where the Sprat family, father, mother, and three children, ate and slept and worked at their trade of making jointed, wooden dolls. I followed with absorbed interest the fortunes of what must have been the most remarkable doll ever turned out by the Sprats, the one whose first little mother named her "Maria Poppet. "
Maria Poppet was a doll of character who kept her eyes open and who never neglected an opportunity to learn from every event of her varied life; who was not puffed up by association with rank and wealth nor cast down by harrowing experiences; who valued loving hearts above jewels and titles and the glitter and show of fashion. " ....Clara Whitehill Hunt