Saturday, January 4, 2020

Travel The World With Hitty!

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       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. The stories inside are told from the point of view of one of our favorite inanimate dolls named Hittie (short for Mehitabel). She was craved in the 1820s and has since traveled around the world, through many different owners.
       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 ends up living in locations as far-flung as Boston, New Orleans, India, and the South Pacific. 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. 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.
       The story was inspired by a doll purchased by Field. The doll currently resides at the Stockbridge Library Association in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
       In 1999, Susan Jeffers and Rosemary Wells updated, simplified, and rewrote Hitty's story, adding an episode about Hitty's experiences in the American Civil War.
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