![]() “I grew up with Edith” - the doll - “as a sister almost,” said Ashley. ![]() Even as an adult, Wright dressed the doll to look like her and photographed it in a variety of situations. The story and its author are already objects of off-beat and slightly morose cult fascination: Edith was named after Wright’s mother, a famous painter, who gave her the toy, while the bears are thought to represent Wright’s brother and father, who were not around during her childhood. ![]() “But I want to separate the crime from the book.” “My Google Alert is just going nuts,” Brook Ashley, who considered Wright her “surrogate mother,” told Daily Intelligencer today. The line is not as cute when one imagines it coming from a stalker.īut Wright’s only living heir and the owner of her estate doesn’t want people to get the wrong idea. ![]() In the author and photographer Dare Wright’s tale, the lonely doll Edith is visited by two bears who keep her company: “Just wait and see what fun we’ll have!” one whispers in Edith’s ear. Following the news of actress Famke Janssen’s unsettling Greenwich Village home invasion, in which a copy of the 1957 children’s book The Lonely Doll was placed near her bed, the story can’t help but take on a new eeriness. ![]()
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