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E�el Newcome

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By Susan Foreman * Photos by Andy Ourant unless otherwise noted
Presenting Miss Ethel Newcome
A Civil War-era Wax Doll

Donated to the UFDC Museum by Judy Blewis,
Becky Decker, Susan Foreman and Sandy Kralovetz

E

thel Newcome, to quote William Makepeace Thackeray, "is
the handsomest woman in England." Soon another "Ethel
Newcome" would prove to be "the handsomest doll in
Philadelphia." The subject of this article, a circa 1860s 26-inch
English poured wax doll, was named after the heroine in Thackeray's 1855
novel, The Newcomes. Thackeray was exceedingly popular at the time, in fact
his only possible rival was Dickens.
"Ethel," the doll, was purchased in Paris in about 1863 by Mary
Cadwalader, Secretary of the Children's Division of the Philadelphia Sanitary
Fair. In addition to Ethel herself, Miss Cadwalader arranged for fabulous
dresses, jewelry and accessories of all kinds to be donated to "Ethel." All these
items were carefully packed in two doll steamer trunks with the monogram
"E.N., London" and sent to Philadelphia where she would become the star of
the 1864 Philadelphia Sanitary Fair.

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