Dolly keeps a secret
Safer than a Friend
Dolly's silent sympathy
Lasts without end.
Friends may betray us
Love may Decay
Dolly's Discretion
Outlasts our Day.
Could Dolly tell of us?
Her wax lips are sealed.
Much has she meditated
Much - ah - concealed.
Dolly ever sleepless
Watches above
The shreds and relics
Of our lost Love
Of our lost Love
Which her small fingers
Never may move.
Dolly is harmless.
We who did harm
Dolly is harmless.
We who did harm
Shall become chill as she
Who now are warm
She mocks Eternity
With her sly charm.
From Possession by A.S. Byatt
Now let me introduce the ladies who keep my secrets:
First comes Christabel, my first porcellain doll, named so after Christabel, the poet, from the novel mentioned above. I long wanted to have my own porcellain doll and when I saw this one in the department store I was struck at how much like my image of Christabel she looked! I had only just finished that impressive novel and of course I had to buy Christabel and give her home and love her because her story in the book was not the happiest. So she is my first and favourite.
Next come the three ladies that have travelled a long way from China (I got the three of them when I was interpreting at a home and interiors exhibition in Guangzhou, almost 3 summers back).
My favourite of the three is Iris Ivy May Marianne Rose (yes, quite a long name, I know!). Iris is just because I like the name, Ivy May is from the book I was reading at the time - Fallen Angels by Tracy Chevalier, Marianne is for Marianne in S&S, and also she reminds me a little of Kate Winslet, so Marianne and Rose both come for the names of the heroines Kate Winslet played. KW played an Iris too for that matter, but I did not think of it initially! Names for the other two were a bit hard to choose. Now they are Camille Frances and Arabella Georgina. The former has her name because she is so sweet, and I think the names are becoming to her sweetness (she used to be Amelia, but I changed it to Camille later (associated with camomilles and their sweetnees in my mind, and also with France!) , not to associate my dolly with Amy from Vanity Fair!). Arabella Georgina looks a bit like Arabella from Captain Blood (loved the book when a teenager) and as for her second name, her costume makes me think of Georgian period and of red dahlias (called georginas in Russian)! It's peculiar that in this set of three the three women in our household have different preferences with these three: I like Iris best of all, mum thinks Camille Frances the sweetest and my sister says Arabella Georgina is the best! We also have also ascribed a country to each of them: Iris looks English, Camille is French and Arabella German (I should think up a third German name for her, maybe!)
And here comes the final girl: she is just Anne, named so after Anne Shirley, the inforgettable Anne of Green Gables. The story of how she started living with me is similar to Christabel's. Two years ago I reread Anne of Green Gables and was completely under its spell. And once I met Anne in the children's department store I felt we had a special bond! So I returned to buy her next time I was at the daparment store. I know she's not a redhead, so she's not a 100% Annein looks, but she looks so lovely and endearing all the same.
P.S. It's obvious I am a fan of going into children's sections in stores sometimes. Helps to relieve stress :-) And now when I come home and watch these lovely girls look at me from the chest of drawers it helps to relax too!No need to say I was just in awe when I happened to be in toy museum in Salzburg, that was absolutely fantastic! I also discovered they have a dolls museum in Baden, if it is Vienna for this summer again, I could visit there too!
Must upload the Salzburg photos some time, the internet speed makes it impossible now!!! :(
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I loved your dolls!! They are beautiful! I wish I could have one of those, actually I would like to have an entire collection of them..
Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be offline... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please reply to my post if you do!
I would appreciate if a staff member here at a-glass-castle-im-rosengarten.blogspot.com could post it.
Thanks,
John
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