The doll currently resides at the Stockbridge Library Association in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The story was inspired by a doll purchased by Field. From there she is purchased at auction for a New York antique shop, where she sits among larger and grander dolls of porcelain and wax, and writes her memoirs. At various times, she is lost at sea and also under sofa cushions, abandoned in a hayloft, serves as part of a snake-charmer's act, and meets the famous writer Charles Dickens, before arriving at her new owner's summer home in Maine, which turns out to be the original Preble residence where she first lived. She ends up living in locations as far-flung as Boston, New Orleans, India, and the South Pacific. The book details Hitty's adventures as she becomes separated from Phoebe and travels from owner to owner over the course of a century. She was craved in the 1820s and has since traveled around the world, through many different owners. The stories inside are told from the point of view of one of our favorite inanimate dolls named Hittie (short for Mehitabel). Hitty is a wooden doll who has her own novel, Hitty Her First Hundred Years. This children's novel written by Rachel Field and published in 1929, won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1930.
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