Molly & Jack Set

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most influential British book illustrators of the Victorian era. Wildly popular in England, she also attracted a wide audience in the United States and many of her books were printed in German and French editions as well. Greenaway's enchanting watercolors of children wearing clothing from an earlier age evoked the Victorian reader's sense of nostalgia for the rural life of eighteenth-century England, and echoed her own longing to retreat from the industrial urban setting of her native London. Her work continues to touch a chord in all of us for a simpler and more gentle time. "Molly & Jack" - Kate Greenaway twins from R. JOHN WRIGHT - are faithfully based on the charming Kate Greenaway illustrations. The twins stand approximately 8" tall, and are constructed of the finest all-wool felt. Fully jointed, Molly & Jack each have a sculpural hollow torso with an internal wood mechanism to connect the ball and socket limbs and head and allow