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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

Jean Nathan

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"The Lonely Doll is a series of children's books written in the 50's by this - by a woman named Dare Wright, who had been a model and a photographer, and then she started making these books with dolls as I recall from her childhood. They're sort of strangely disturbing. There's bondage and all sorts of things, but in the 50's the didn't think of that kind of subtext. Dare Wright died sadly in sort of a pauper's hospital basically. The author of her biography had met her there 'cause I'd - again, I'd seen Lonely Doll in a bookstore and thought, "This is weird." Then it was like, "Oh, you know, she's still alive." "Oh, she is?" Then tracked her down and decided to write this book about her life. It covers her entire life. When she was a kid, her parents separated; her father was an alcoholic. She had a brother, and the brother went with the father, and she went with her mother. She didn't see her brother again until she was fully grown; and then when she was fully grown, she sort of got a crush on him. There's some imputation that they may actually have had sibling incest, so it's all very gothic and odd. She was a very striking woman, and she'd been in lot of - in sort of the heyday of glamour pose advertising. She was a fairly well known model in that world. So there's all that sort of Manhattan glamour, combined with this kind of seedy, troubled back story. I would give it five stars."`