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A review by juliebihn
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
4.0
Cute little book from 1929, about a spunky doll, Hitty, carved around the 1820s or so, and her adventures through the "present". Hitty has a charming voice and the story is cute. But there are way more sad moments than I expected, made all the more depressing because of the string of miracles that reunite Hitty with her original owner at the start, followed by so many tragedies.
As for content, not the most sensitive treatment of other races, but I reckon it's no worse than most other works from the era.
Modern readers will probably get a start when an obnoxious human young man pretends to "make love" to Hitty in front of his friends. (I did!) Per http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=love&allowed_in_frame=0, "To make love is from 1570s in the sense "pay amorous attention to;" as a euphemism for "have sex," it is attested from c.1950." So that explains that.
As for content, not the most sensitive treatment of other races, but I reckon it's no worse than most other works from the era.
Modern readers will probably get a start when an obnoxious human young man pretends to "make love" to Hitty in front of his friends. (I did!) Per http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=love&allowed_in_frame=0, "To make love is from 1570s in the sense "pay amorous attention to;" as a euphemism for "have sex," it is attested from c.1950." So that explains that.