encyclopedia-victoria: Queen Victoria’s DollsBy the time she was ten, Victoria […] wa

encyclopedia-victoria: Queen Victoria’s Dolls By the time she was ten, Victoria […] was engrossed in making a series of 132 sophisticated wooden dolls. She and Lehzen spent hundreds of hours carefully sewing clothes and copying figures from the court, ballet, or opera. They painted them painstakingly, sewed their clothes, and listed them all in a book. Victoria took them travelling with her sometimes, and would carefully ‘arrange them’ on beautifully upholstered chairs in each new environment, their somber little faces peering at her, all in a row. - Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen -- source link

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