I first read Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field when I was a teenager, and I still have the somewhat battered hardcover copy which I purchased used for $1. The edition was printed in October, 1943, and it had the colored frontispiece of Hitty sitting for her daguerreotype, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. I remember thinking at the time that it was a really good story, and as a young doll collector, I would have loved to have my own Hitty doll. But few people were making Hitty dolls at that time. Above: photo of the real Hitty in the Stockbridge Library Museum in 2024. Courtesy of Beth…
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About the Book
You may be wondering why I would write a blog about a book that hasn’t even been written yet. At the moment, it is still in the concept/outline stage, but hopefully, this blog will help me focus my energies and encourage me to keep going until it is finished. As I continue to research the characters and locations in the story, I will periodically add interesting tidbits of information that I come across to the website. My inspiration for A Tale of Two Hittys came from an episode in the book Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. Some time after the Civil War, one of Hitty’s many owners…
