Title: Title
Subtitle: The live doll Subtitle: or Ellen's New Year's Gift
Description: a "SELECT BOOK Suitable for Young Persons."  
A book about morality and character-building based on a creepy premise: a wealthy six-year-old girl wishes for a living doll.  Her parents adopt an orphan and give her to the child, who then owns, educates and supervises her.  The language is surprisingly readable, suitable for an eight or ten-year-old today
Subjects: Sisters, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, adoption
Time periods: 1830