Gruelle lived in the Silvermine section of New Canaan, Connecticut, where the dolls were first mass-produced, and later moved his home and company to neighbouring Wilton, Connecticut. Woodin (1868 – 1934), who in 1933 was appointed Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt. His ‘Sunny Songs’ were set to music by William H. Possessed, with a heavy countenance, and … with the only thing he would bear to have near him as a reminder of Marcella a rag doll.Īside from the books and dolls, Gruelle also wrote songs on the ‘Raggedy Ann’ theme. After this blow, family friends described Gruelle as: His beloved Marcella contracted diptheria and died at the age of thirteen. Gruelle’s life was struck by immense personal tragedy however. One such example is his masterful, Nobody’s Boy – illustrations for Hector Malet’s Sans Famille. Gruelle was an extremely talented illustrator as well as author, and often had such confidence in his designs that he would create the final ink work without first sketching in pencil. These became Volland’s major source of revenue. Three years later, in 1918, the ‘PF Volland Company’ published Raggedy Ann Stories, and Gruelle went on to create an extremely popular series on the same theme, as well as a further collection of Raggedy Ann dolls.
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