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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Goody Fae and Her Cat Feasel

Goody Fae and her cat Feasel were created by me some time ago. They now reside in the Seattle area.  Goody Fae is a large doll.

Here via Wikipedia is an explanation for the use of the word Goody prefacing a female name:

Goodwife (ScotsGuidwife), usually abbreviated Goody, was a polite form of address for women, formerly used where "Mrs.", "Miss" and "Ms." would be used today. Its male counterpart is Goodman. However, a woman addressed by this title was of a lesser social rank than a woman addressed as Mistress.
"Goodwife" and "Goody" were used in EnglandScotland, and Colonial America, with the earliest known use circa 1325.[1] By the mid-18th century they had become archaicoutside Scotland, and they are perhaps best known today as the forms of address used in Arthur Miller's historical fiction The Crucible, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown", the novels Magnus by George Mackay Brown and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare.
Although the expression 'Goody Two-Shoes' is sometimes credited to the children's book The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765), the expression appears as far back as a century earlier.[2]





Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Mary, Maggie, Tillie and Elizabeth

Four of my old-fashioned, early styled maché head dolls awaiting completion.

From left to right: Mary, Maggie, Tillie and Elizabeth.