Tag: GIRLHOOD

How GIRLHOOD Made A Grown-Man Cry

One of the Black Friday sales I took advantage of this year was twenty percent off membership at the Cincinnati Museum Center. I have only been a couple of times, but every time I go, I enjoy it — so this would encourage me to attend more often. It got me into “Holiday Junction,” a...

In the Dollhouse: Margaret Alsager, Beethoven, and Victorian Girlhood

This has to be one of the most unusual dollhouse artifacts I have ever seen. You read me right. This rather unusual document is about a girl and her dollhouse. Written on January 1, 1837, it is an indenture— or contract— between Mr. Thomas Massa Alsager, a journalist from Quee...