6/1/2023 0 Comments Hitty her first 100 years![]() ![]() When Hadlock died, frozen while seal hunting in Canada, his sister Abigail inherited the house, and it came to be called the Preble house when she married William Preble. It is certain that Rachel Field knew of the Prebles and their house because another book of hers, God’s Pocket, relates the life and adventures of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr., who built and lived in that very house, before the Prebles. We believe Rachel Field had them and their house in mind when she wrote Hitty. On Great Cranberry Island, Maine, there still stands today a large white clapboard house, with lilacs out front, and a tall tree on the side - the Preble house. Hitty currently resides at the Stockbridge Library Museum, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.Īlso, in the book, the family that Hitty first stays with, and their house, in which she was carved, does actually exist, and Rachel Field knew of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel, and Dorothy Lathrop really did find Hitty in a New York City antique shop, and they took her to the Cranberry Isles while working on the book. First and foremost, of course, is the doll itself. Although a work of fiction, Rachel Field did base Hitty, Her First Hundred Years on some facts. ![]()
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