#american girl nellie

[samantha-and-nellie]

one thing that i wish the books had addressed is how haunting it must’ve been for samantha to visit coldrock house. i think the fandom really easily forgets that samantha is an orphan (and has been since she was around jenny’s age) because she has an otherwise functional and loving family in her life. but there’s no way that she never thought about the fact that she could’ve ended up in a place like coldrock house had she come from a different background… i cannot imagine how haunting that must’ve felt, especially at her age, and i think it makes it even clearer why she was so determined to get nellie and her sisters out of the orphanage

#samantha parkington #saah liveblog #american girl #samantha: an american girl holiday #ag #american girl doll #nellie o'malley #agblr

[agfanforever]

A little WIP of my two favorite girls. I am quite lazy when it comes to finishing my art but I really like this piece and have an idea I hope to execute and have finished by Valentine’s Day!

… but just in case I don’t… take this for now

#american girl #american girl dolls #agig #nellie o’malley #samantha parkington #my art

[emilychickenart]

I’d love to finish this American Girl series one of these days, I adore these girls

#american girl #molly mcintire #emily bennett #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #kit kittredge #ruthie smithens #kirsten larson #singing bird #addy walker #sarah moore #my art #felicity merriman #elizabeth cole

[stingrayextraordinaire]

American Girl Moodboards // Nellie O'Malley

Do you think we're dreaming?

(requested by @hannierosie91 and @ethereal-maia)

#nellie o'malley #american girl #american girl moodboards #characters #character moodboards #moodboards #aesthetics #my moodboards #my edits #requests #requested moodboards #lightcore #softcore

[idledoll]

The foremost members of the Big Floppy Hat Club.

#idledoll's dolls #Samantha #Samantha Parkington #Nellie #Nellie O'Malley #historical american girl dolls #AG dolls #American Girl #doll photography #dollblr #agblr

[in-pleasant-company]

A lot of people have questioned how likely it would have been for a wealthy couple like Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia to adopt three orphan girls who weren't family members.

What's really fascinating is that in 1907, The Delineator, a popular fashion magazine in the 1900s, published an article on orphans in New York city, who grew up without the attention and love of family due to being raised in institutions, putting them on the path to become immoral adults.

The article had a response that the editors were not expecting - readers wanted to adopt the children! The attitudes towards orphans were different too - the women who wrote to the magazine were hoping to raise these children as their own children, not use them as labor in their homes. The idea of motherhood was also changing - women who had never given birth asked that they be equally respected as mothers as those who had. From then on, as part of the Child-Rescue Campaign, the magazine published brief biographies of orphaned children who could be adopted.

More than two thousand children were adopted through the Child-Rescue Campaign, which lasted from late 1907 to early 1911.

This campaign is a little more complex than I can explain here, so if you're interested, I encourage you to read the essay I sourced the information from. It's available to read for free on HathiTrust.

(Information adapted from Rescue a Child and Save the Nation The Social Construction of Adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911 by Julie Berebitsky, printed in Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives edited by E. Wayne Carp)

#samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #historical inspirations #american girl

[lesbianiconmollymcintire]

Earlier this week Nellie and I made cornflake macaroons from B. Dylan Hollis' Baking Yesteryear cookbook 🍪

#american girl dolls #my dolls #nellie o'malley

[dandelion-daisys]

I just realised how FUNNY it would be to be Cornelia Parkington's friend and not see her for like 3 years. You see her and are like "wow it's so nice to see you! I heard you got married to that nice man, Gardner was it?" And she's like "yeah! He's a a wonderful man."

"Do you have any children yet?"

"Yes :) five."

That'd be so hilariously confusing. What do you MEAN 5. You got married 2 years ago.

#over the course of samantha being 9 to 11 (and almost 12) they take over care of samantha #adopt her bestfriend and that friends 2 little sisters #AND have a baby boy #samantha parkington #American girl dolls #ag dolls #nellie o'malley

[futuristicsaladparadise]

Anyone for a tea party? Nellie and Samantha are ready!

#american girl dolls #american girl #my dolls #agig #ag #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley

[shakespearefreak]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month 2023! 🏳️‍🌈

This afternoon, @kozmicrain and I went to the Capitol building for a dolly Pride photoshoot featuring Evette, Josefina, Samantha, Nellie, Mini-Rain, and Makena! Sam, Nellie, and Mini-Rain are proudly carrying the lesbian flag, while Evie, Kay, and Josefina are supporting them. Even Jip got in on the fun with his rainbow bandanna! (And yes, I headcanon Sam and Nellie as girlfriends, at least later on in the series.)

#american girl #american girl dolls #doll photography #evette peeters #josefina montoya #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #makena williams #world by us #pleasant company #happy pride 🌈

[samantha-and-nellie]

i’ve become a bit of an aunt cornelia truther

#samantha parkington #saah liveblog #american girl #samantha: an american girl holiday #ag #american girl doll #agblr #nellie o'malley #aunt cornelia

[americangirlstar]

American Girl + Percy Jackson PicCrew (2/?)

Samantha "Sam" Parkington, daughter of Hades

Nellie O'Malley, daughter of Hephaestus

Rebecca Rubin, daughter of Dionysus

Claudie Wells, daughter of Hermes

Margaret "Kit" Kittredge, daughter of Hermes

Ruthie Smithens, daughter of Aphrodite

Alice Nanea Mitchell, daughter of Ares

Molly McIntire, daughter of Nike

Emily Bennett, daughter of Athena

#american girl #pjo au #american girls #american girl doll #camp half blood #piccrew #riordanverse #pjo pcr #beforever #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #rebecca rubin #claudie wells #kit kittredge #ruthie smithens #nanea mitchell #molly mcintire #emily bennett #mine

[timetravelingcourtney]

☘️May troubles be less and blessings be more

May nothing but happiness come to your door

May you have luck wherever you go

May blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow

The wind be at your back and sun be overhead

May friends be at your side wherever you are led ☘️

#nellie o'malley #american girl #pleasant company #Irish blessing #st patricks day

[omgthatdress]

In the books, Nellie was an Irish-American servant girl that Samantha befriends and teaches to read. Because Samantha is nine and has had a fairly sheltered upbringing, she doesn’t quite have the understandings of class structure that separates her and Nellie, she just sees a friend. Nellie opens Samantha’s eyes to the broader world beyond Grandmary’s mansion and helps her understand the social issues facing turn-of-the century America.

In Changes for Samantha, Grandmary has finally married Admiral Archibald Beemis, and Samantha has gone to live with Uncle Gard and Cornelia in New York City. There, she finds out that Nellie’s parents have died and she is living with her uncle Mike in the city. Samantha sets out to find her, only to find that she’s been abandoned and is living in an orphanage. Eventually, she helps Nellie and her sisters escape, and they come to be adopted by Uncle Gard and Cornelia.

I always thought that felt like an unreasonably happy ending for Nellie, given her social inferiority and that adoption was actually fairly taboo in the era of social darwinism and eugenics, but I also know that rich White progressives of the era LOVED doing shit like that, so I guess it’s not completely unreasonable.

Reading the summary of the book Nellie’s Promise made me sooooooo fucking happy. It gets into all those issues of social inequality and gives Nellie a lot more agency in being more than just a lucky orphan. I especially loved the parts about how Nellie was unhappy going to Samantha’s private girl’s school where she was learning nothing practical and only being trained in how to be a rich society wife. Nellie knew she needed a practical education so that she’d be able to secure a job in the future and fulfill her promise of taking care of her sisters. In the end, she’s able to enroll in a vocational school that fits her needs. I love it. I love it so fucking much.

Before I go any further, I should probably just go ahead and say that in this era, the Irish were still very much considered White. The definition of Whiteness in the 1900s was very different from what it is today (plz read The History of White People by Nell Irvin), and some people were Whiter than others, but the Irish were White. White*, if you will. They would be listed as White on all their legal documents, and weren’t faced with segregation the way that Black people were. The Irish were never slaves (they sure as shit were slave owners, though!) and don’t ever fucking compare anti-Irish discrimination to anti-Blackness and anti-Semitism. They are all their own unique things and playing the oppression olympics does no one any good. And YES I know about the history of the colonization of Ireland by England and anti-Irish attitudes in the UK, but I’m talking about American history. Anti-Irish American history and Anti-Irish British history are very, very different.

There’s a lot of raging ongoing debate about the extent to which the Irish were discriminated against in the US, and yes, there was discrimination. But literally EVERY immigrant group in the US faced discrimination and even violence. There’s a lot of academic debate about the whole “No Irish Need Apply” thing, but it was like that for EVERYONE. Italians, Poles, Greeks, Germans, Swedes, you name it, immigrants in general were all treated as unwelcome and less-than by the Anglo-Saxon Protestant powers that be at some point, the Irish were just another part of that. The idea that the Irish were somehow unique or special in their discrimination in America is a myth.

The point I’m making is that a lot of conservative Irish-Americans LOVE to make big maudlin claims of Irish victimhood and Irish slavery (THE IRISH WERE NEVER SLAVES) that somehow means they’re somehow exempt from having White privilege and taking personal responsibility to not be a racist fuck. That is pure bullshit, Irish-Americans have been White as fuck ever since JFK.

ANYWAY. All that being said, I love Nellie’s little outfit. It’s actually super accurate! A lovely little summer dress, perfect for visiting the ice cream parlor!

(The Museum of London, credit @in-pleasant-company​)

Again, like with Samantha, the hat should be more perched on the hair and held in place with hat pins rather than fitted to the head. But that’s probably beyond your average 7-year-old’s patience, so I guess I can give them a pass.

#1900s #American Girl #Nellie

[pleasantpuddingg]

Finally got Nellie! Just need to start collecting some of her outfits and accessories.

#pleasant company #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #american girl #ag #pc #pc doll #historical dolls #doll collector #dollblr

[in-pleasant-company]

Mary and Nellie, two Irish-American girls.

🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day!🍀

#my dolls #nellie o'malley #american girl #Instagram