Doll News Winter 2015 - (Page 88)
Hepzibah's
Milkmaids
The Dolls of
The House of the
Seven Gables
by Val Copley
with Lorna Lieberman and Laurie McGill
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). Charles Osgood,
artist, 1841. Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum.
"Halfway down a by-street of one of our
New England towns, stands a rusty wooden
house, with seven acutely peaked gables
facing towards various points of the compass,
and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst."
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Fig. 1 Hepzibah Pyncheon in her Cent Shop as depicted in
an illustration by Helen Mason Grose. "Heaven help me!"
Hepzibah groaned... "Now is my hour of need!"
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o begins Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of 1851, The House
of the Seven Gables. The book was an immediate sensation,
with its fashionably gothic themes of dishonesty, loss and bad blood,
washing down through the generations of the Pyncheon family,
whose unlucky progeny were pursued by "Maule's curse" and at the
heart of the book, the brooding presence of the house itself. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow described it as "a weird and wild book" and
there are many hints of witchcraft and the supernatural. Hawthorne
was haunted by his own ancestors' connection to the infamous
Salem witch trials of 1692.
The plight of penniless and fearful Hepzibah Pyncheon (Fig. 1)
is palpable, struggling against her own nature to open a cent-shop
in the ancestral home to earn a crust, as is the sense of new life
entering when well-named sunny Phoebe comes to help:
"We must renew our stock, Cousin Hepzibah!" cried the little
saleswoman. "The gingerbread figures are all gone, and so are
those Dutch wooden milkmaids and most of our other playthings.
There has been constant inquiry for cheap raisins, and a great cry
for whistles, and trumpets, and jewsharps, and at least a dozen
little boys have asked for molasses-candy."
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Doll News Winter 2015
From the Editor
UFDC Offi cers and Regional Directors
President’s Message
UFDC Conference Calendar
A Warm Welcome to Our Newest Members
A Dream Come True, UFDC’s 66th Annual Convention Information and the 2015 UFDC National Convention Registration Card
2015 UFDC National Competitive Exhibit Early Information
Fundraising Committee Report
Marianna’s Gift: The Hands that Heal
Marianna Original Paper Doll
Wonderful Japanese Kokeshi Dolls
Alien (Heads) or The Invasion of the (Peg Wooden) Body Snatchers
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Family Dolls
Louisa May Alcott, Madame Alexander and the Little Women Dolls
Hepzibah’s Milkmaids – The Dolls of The House of the Seven Gables
A Child A Doll A Portrait
Shared Passions 2014 UFDC Special Exhibit The Wild West
Shared Passions 2014 UFDC Special Exhibit Dianna Effner
Shared Passions 2014 UFDC Antique Competitive Exhibit Part 1
Shared Passions 2014 UFDC Modern Competitive Exhibit Part 1
Shared Passions 2014 UFDC In Appreciation
The Art of Technology
Painted Perfection – The Story of Susan Fosnot
Masquerade - The History of Costume Balls and Fancy Dress
Go Ahead, Make a Scene! Creative Collecting, Part 1
Club Notes
Reviewing Resources
Milestones
UFDC Awards of Excellence Nomination Information and Form
Donations
Doll-ers & Sense
In Our Memories
News & Notes
Member-At-Large Form
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