The Dolls' House

Synopsis

<br> "Described by the author as 'a novel written about dolls in a dolls' house', this story of present-day London, with its severe dolls' housing shortage, is very beautifully written indeed." A variety of dolls compose the Plantagenet household. Marchpane, 100 years old and elegant, is disruptive and causes a great family tragedy. --<i>The Times of India</i> 1948-02-22 p4 "For Your Bookshelf"

Notes

About 26,000 words

• Sometimes catalogued as The Doll's House (eg {{OCLC|680101884}}; 1976 Puffin 014030942X), and one edition sometimes as Tottie: The Story of Doll's House (eg {{OCLC|441307432}}; 1983 Young Puffin 0140316752).
• The former, in printings from 1990 with cover illus. by Robert Barrett and design by Rebecca Laughlin, displays singular The Doll's House on the cover only (front and spine); plural Dolls' on the title page.
• Adapted by the BBC as a stop-motion animated TV series beginning 1984: "Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House" (per Wikipedia, above) or plural (per IMDb).
• Kirkus Reviews (August 1948; posted online with later cover image and ISBN, no date) uses title The Doll's House.