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Milettes: Small French Dolls to Collect & Make (1993) For the Love of Dolls and Roses: A Story of the Author, Her Life, Her Successes, and Failures (1994) Beloved China Dolls (1996) Study of the Fashion Dolls of France (1996) Victorian Doll Secrets (1996) Pamphlets. The Doll House Doll: Stitching Craft Book (1976) Making Original Dolls and ...
Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) online. Rudorff, Raymond. Belle Epoque: Paris in the 1890s (Hamish Hamilton, 1972). Wires, Richard. "Paris: La Belle Époque". Conspectus of History 1.4 (1977): 60–72.
Charles Frederick Worth at age 30 – he had already begun to build his reputation in Paris as a designer. Charles Frederick Worth was born on 13 October 1825 in the Lincolnshire market town of Bourne [9] to William and Ann Worth.
Articles relating to the Belle Époque (Beautiful Epoch, c. 1871-1914), a period of French and European history. Occurring during the era of the Third French Republic, it was a period characterised by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations.
The dolls are stamped with a variety of marks that sometimes contain a horseshoe. [5] Most of their dolls had closed mouths; dolls tend to be smaller than the dolls of the other manufacturers- the vast majority are under 50 cm tall. [6] Erst Heubach made a large variety of baby and toddler dolls with mould numbers including, 300, 320, 342 and 399.
Bertha "Beatrice" Alexander Behrman (March 9, 1895 – October 3, 1990), [1] [2] known as Madame Alexander, was an American dollmaker.Founder and owner of the Alexander Doll Company in New York City for 65 years, she introduced new materials and innovative designs to create lifelike dolls based on famous people and characters in books, films, music, and art.
Paris in the Belle Époque was a period in the history of the city during the years 1871 to 1914, from the beginning of the Third French Republic until the First World War. It saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower , the Paris Métro , the completion of the Paris Opera , and the beginning of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre .
Lucy acquired her love of fashion through dressing her collection of dolls, by studying gowns worn by women in family paintings, and by later making clothes for herself and Elinor. [4] Returning to Jersey, after a visit to relatives in England in 1875, Lucy and Elinor survived the wreck of their ship when it ran aground in a gale.