There Really Was A Madame Alexander
Yes, Virginia, there really is (was) a Madame Alexander. But she didn’t come into the world with that title or name. She was known as Bertha when she was born in Brooklyn in 1895, the same year her stepfather opened a doll hospital. As a teenager she had hoped to go to Paris to study sculpting, but her parents lost their savings when their bank went under. So she married and got a job as a bookkeeper at a hat […]
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My Material Life 