Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls

Raggedy Ann: The Books Behind the Doll
By Sarah Dougherty — "Fairyland must be filled with rag dolls, soft loppy rag dolls who go through all the beautiful adventures found there, nestling in the crook of a dimpled arm." —from "Raggedy Ann Stories," by Johnny Gruelle, 1918 Step into the whimsical world of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, loved by generations of young and old alike for more than 90 years. Raggedy Ann was born out of tragedy. John Barton Gruelle (1880-1938) conjured up the Raggedy Ann stories to entertain his ailing daughter,...

Antique Dolls, from Wood and Wax to Kewpie
By Maribeth Keane and Jessica Lewis — We have a very small team here at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, so we all have to do lots of different things. I don’t look after all the dolls, but I oversee the collections. I do the waxes and the woodens. I’ve got colleagues who are in charge of the cloth ones and the plastic ones and the porcelain ones and so on. I used to do all of it. When Caroline Goodfellow took early retirement about 10 or 11, years ago, I had to take on the whole doll collection as well as all my...