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Brianna Beehler

Brianna Beehler

Brianna Beehler is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Southern California. icon

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“Kingdom of Dolls”: Sonneberg, Germany

By Brianna Beehler

In her mid-19th-century children’s book, Memoirs of a Doll, Julie Gouraud warns her readers not to unstitch their dolls looking for origins and inner workings ...

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