that then came out in these children's books," the biographer says. "All of her stories turn on aspects of her own childhood, the fears of punishment and being abandoned.
"I think that was the central trauma of Dare's life, losing both her father and her brother as a young child, and was something that stayed with her throughout her life," Nathan says.
Her parents were divorced when Wright was three years old, resulting in her separation from her older brother. Wright's troubled childhood was reflected in the Lonely Doll books. Nathan discusses Dare's life with NPR's Steve Inskeep. Nathan has written The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, a biography of the late author and photographer Dare Wright, who created a series of popular children's books that scores of girls grew up with from the 1950s to the 1980s. The children's title featured photos of a doll named Edith and stuffed bears who looked so authentic that Nathan believed Edith was a real girl. The last of Dare Wright's Lonely Doll books and our favorite.ĬONDITION: Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket no names or other marks, tight, clean, with light bumps to extrems in clean jacket with wear to extrems and 5 short closed margin tears to one half inch unclipped 8.95.When she was growing up, author Jean Nathan learned to read with a book called The Lonely Doll. "I don't want to watch him fly away." Darling spring pictures of a felt Lenci doll come alive, here dressed for work in her outdoor clothes. Bear a little child's questions about raising a wild creature.
Bear find an abandoned nest in the woods and hatch and raise a duckling. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981, stated 1st printing yellow gingham trade binding with full front cover photo of Edith sitting on the grass and sheltering her little duckling, white endpapers with the grown up duckling flying away, in jacket identical to boards 8.75x12.25 np. Edith and the Duckling (The Lonely Doll books).
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