Sarah Jane Fisher Doll

Sarah Jane Fisher Doll
'An early Sarah Jane Fisher Doll'

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

The dollmaker who hated dolls?

My last general google search for "Sarah Jane Fisher dollmaker" came up with this:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/93960927?q=sarah+jane+fisher&c=article&versionId=107301035

A family member, William, has also mentioned it to me and wondered whether it might be an article about Sarah.

I'm not sure.

I know for a fact that my mother loved dolls. The title of this archive article is

Sarah Jane Fisher: the dollmaker who hated dolls. 

The date the article was written fits with the time period that Sarah was actively selling her work, but it just doesn't sound like her. But I could be wrong!

I have tried to read the article, but it's not available online. William has contacted the Australian National Library so we'll see if anything comes of it.

It will be interesting to see what clippings and snippets of information Sarah kept in her file, but I like the idea of trying to find her dolls without her help...
 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello, Thank you for your doll pictures, they are very beautiful and have a lot of soul, your mother must have been a wonderful woman.

XXX Dan

TheFishDaughter said...

Thank you Dan!
She was wonderful and very talented. I now have her archive file which has loads of beautiful photos of some of her dolls. I'll be uploading them over the next few days. I hope you enjoy looking at them.
Thanks again. Jemima x