![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are the professional successes: In addition to making it as a model, Wright, in an unusual accomplishment, also became a sought-after commercial photographer, completing many assignments for Good Housekeeping magazine throughout the 1950s. Nathan explores the outcome of Wright's confined, controlled and lonely childhood in her haunting and beautifully written biography. And most surprising of all are the erotic outdoor scenes either of the adult Wright naked or almost bare, draped in shells, seaweed, pearls or driftwood. More surprisingly, there are photographs Wright took, using a timer, of herself posing in imaginative homemade costumes (shades of contemporary artist Cindy Sherman). Then there are the photographs from Wright's earlier modeling career: There she is in the early 1950s on the cover of Cosmopolitan peering through a black veil, and again, standing in an advertisement wearing a Maidenform bra. But these photographs, as Nathan points out, are more noirish and anxiety-ridden than may be remembered. For those Baby Boomers who grew up with Wright's best-selling children's books in the 1950s and '60s, there are the familiar images of her lifelike doll, Edith, and her two friends, Mr. When a reader picks up "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll," Jean Nathan's biography of Dare Wright, the first compulsion is to leaf through the photographs. ![]()
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