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Legal name: Horne, Richard Henry
Other names: Horne, Richard Hengist
Fairstar, Mrs.
Bassorà, Salem ben Uzäir of
Watts, Ephraim
O'Trigger, Sir Lucius
Birthdate: 1802-12-31
Date of death: 1884-03-13
Gender: male
Education: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Occupations: poet
critic
midshipman
magazine editor
civil servant
Organizations: Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Mines and Manufactures
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Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Edmonton, London, England, UK
Places of residence: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place of death: Margate, Kent, England, UK
Map Location: England, UK

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villemezbrown 8,836 reviews

Memoirs of a London Doll, Written by Herself. by Richard Henry Horne

A wooden doll named Maria Poppet takes a year-long tour through 19th century English social classes, passing through the hands of children who are laborers, nobility, orphans, and middle class as well as various adult merchants and artists. She is made, bought, bartered, lost, found, and gifted.

The prose is as stiff as the doll, with long stretches of description of setting that are sure to bore children waiting for the doll's next change of clothes and owner.

Side note: An inscription in the show more book shows that my wife received this book as a birthday present from her grandfather in 1977. show less

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Rubygarnet 141 reviews

Memoirs of a London Doll (excerpts) by Richard Henry Horne