The Bronte children had plenty of toys. They has painted wooden alphabet blocks, a wooden lion, a toy barrel, and a set of ninepins. For the girls there were wax headed dolls with hats and frocks, a wickerwork doll's cridle,
The barrel and the lion were found under the parsonage floorboards in 1949.
The tiny tea service, with on it: "'Ladies all I pray make free. And tell me how you like your tea.
From the book ""The Brontes,"" from Juliet Barker.
a children's tea service and even a tiny working model of an iron in brass.
Branwell, too, acquired at least three sets of wooden soldiers from Bradford, Keighley and Leeds, two sets of Turkisch musicians from Keighley ans Halifax and one set of Indians from Haworth.
The barrel and the lion were found under the parsonage floorboards in 1949.
The tiny tea service, with on it: "'Ladies all I pray make free. And tell me how you like your tea.
From the book ""The Brontes,"" from Juliet Barker.
- I was looking for photographs of Victorian dolls and found this great weblog dolls from the attic
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