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GNOMES AND FAIRIES
It was 19th Century children's writer and illustrator, Palmer Cox, who made the gnome called "Brownie" famous, and inspired M. E. Heller to create dolls and books about the Brownies.
"WHAT IS A BROWNIE?" the child with the doll would ask.
Some years ago, in Rochester New York's Strong Museum, we followed a young gift store buyer up and down the aisles of Margaret Strong's amazing collection of dolls and Victoriana.
Here they are," she cried, as we came upon a case of one-hundred-year-old Palmer Cox brownie artifacts. And there they were; those tiny chinless, oval-eyed, long-toed skinny-legged, smiling, gnomes, their images printed and stamped upon everything from dolls and toy blocks to china plates and silverware.
featuring His Royal Higness' marquetry & music
Marigold's Book Club is now reviewing Thirteen characters from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustration by Palmer Cox
An illustrated chapterbook about the Palmer Cox Brownies. Buy it HERE
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Aug 09 #5
"The delightful Sherlockian dolls made by Martha Heller ("Martha-My-Dear")
in the 1980s can now be seen in action, so to speak, in two amusing videos
("The Case of the Missing Afikomen" and "The Darkened Room") created by Amy
Mantell; visit her web-site." sherlockshorts.com