The Paper Doll's House of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Birdsall Otis, aged Twelve

New Hardback Illustrated

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In 1884 a young Birdie Otis set about creating a two-dimensional doll’s house within a book. Decorated with scraps of wallpaper and other printed ephemera, the collaged pages highlight her sophisticated sense of colour, even at 12 years old. The pages are reproduced in this volume and are accompanied by press-out figures, enabling the book to be played with in the way Birdie played with it, and a brief biography that traces her from an imaginative child to a leading suffragette and President of the Girl Scouts of America.

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