Possibly Mr Bear appropriated and "adopted" Little Bear in the same manner as he quickly assumes the parental role over Edith, monitoring her behavior and controlling her activities. Edith is on the verge of going mad from isolation when finally two strange bears appear.
Perhaps there has been some apocalypse, some epidemic which wiped out all mammals. She is desperately lonely, praying every night for friends and trying to talk with the small animals who seem to be the only living things left in this deserted world. "I think that the reason that the books worked so well for children is in a sense they were written by a person who was a child herself.Edith lives in a lovely house and has everything she needs - except company. Wright, who died in 2001, "was working out many of the things that troubled her through these stories," Nathan says. that then came out in these children's books," the biographer says. "All of her stories turn on aspects of her own childhood, the fears of punishment and being abandoned. "I think that was the central trauma of Dare's life, losing both her father and her brother as a young child, and was something that stayed with her throughout her life," Nathan says. Her parents were divorced when Wright was three years old, resulting in her separation from her older brother. Wright's troubled childhood was reflected in the Lonely Doll books.
Nathan discusses Dare's life with NPR's Steve Inskeep. Nathan has written The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, a biography of the late author and photographer Dare Wright, who created a series of popular children's books that scores of girls grew up with from the 1950s to the 1980s. The children's title featured photos of a doll named Edith and stuffed bears who looked so authentic that Nathan believed Edith was a real girl. When she was growing up, author Jean Nathan learned to read with a book called The Lonely Doll.
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