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Edith sought portrait commissions from patrons in New York and Ohio in order to keep the family afloat. Ivan, says the author, was an absentee husband who went through jobs - and alcohol - at an alarming rate.

Nathan's resulting book concludes that the lonely doll is Wright's alter ego through her art, Wright tried to exorcise her abusive past.ĭare Wright was born in 1914 to Ivan Leonard Wright, a theater critic, and Edith 'Edie' Stevenson Wright, a portrait painter. In addition to these primary documents, Nathan collected reminiscences from Wright's friends and associates. In a stroke of serendipity, Ashley was in the process of closing Wright's apartment she gave Nathan scrapbooks detailing Wright's career and hundreds of photographs. Wright had no living relatives, but her legal guardian, Brook Ashley, agreed to meet with Nathan.

On a whim, Nathan decided to track down the author, and learned that Wright was on life support in a public hospital for indigent patients. Decades on, the book struck me as dark and a little troubling.' After rereading the text, she was perplexed: 'I knew I had once found this book deeply reassuring. In the late 1990s, New York journalist Jean Nathan, remembering the book from her childhood, sought out a copy. Bear, all is forgiven and the bears agree to stay with Edith 'forever and ever.' The two immediately make a mess playing dress-up, but, after a spanking administered by Mr.

Bear sets off on an errand, cautioning Edith and Little Bear to stay out of trouble. The three have a series of adventures in the city and at the beach later, Mr. Bear and Little Bear - appear on her terrace and announce they've come to be her companions. Illustrated in a series of evocative black-and-white photographs, the story centers on Edith, a wide-eyed blond doll who lives all alone and prays every night for friends. 'The Lonely Doll' was first published in 1957. While her books were a success, Wright is revealed to have been a tormented woman who spent her life yearning for the father and brother she lost at an early age. Biography of 'The Lonely Doll' author Dare Wright is thoroughly engrossing, and fans of the series will want to read her terrific - and terrifically disturbing - life story.

The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright