{"id":1332,"date":"2022-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:52:10","slug":"lady-tabitha-and-us-at-home-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2022\/12\/06\/lady-tabitha-and-us-at-home-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Tabitha and Us – At Home Christmas Eve #ChristmasCountdown Door no. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Illustration from ‘Lady Tabitha and Us’ (Rare Books, RB823.912 AIN)Lady Tabitha At Home Christmas Eve…Come and Play. So we all went –\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Lady Tabitha and Us’ is an illustrated book that describes the adventures of Lady Tabitha and other wooden dolls at a Christmas Eve party. The illustration depicts peg dolls at home getting ready, putting on make-up, preparing hair and getting dressed for a Christmas Party. You join Tabitha as the others as they play games, including musical chairs, hunt the slipper and dumb crumbs.<\/p>\n

Published by Castell Brothers Ltd: London and created by Kathleen Ainslie.\u00a0Kathleen Ainslie was an illustrator, active in the years 1900-1911. She is best-known for her series of children’s books based on jointed Dutch peg dolls which were popular during the 19th and early-20th centuries (Florence Kate Upton’s\u00a0The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg<\/em>\u00a0had been published in 1895).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illustration from ‘Lady Tabitha and Us’ (Rare Books, RB823.912 AIN)Lady Tabitha At Home Christmas Eve…Come and Play. So we all went –\u00a0 ‘Lady Tabitha and Us’ is an illustrated book that describes the adventures of Lady Tabitha and other wooden … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[197,76,312,256,311],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmascountdown","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-eve","tag-kathleen-ainslie","tag-peg-dolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}