The Royal Collection Trust said the work revealed Sackville-West’s influence on the writings of Woolf. But such minor inconveniences were as nothing beside the pleasure which these mechanical contrivances brought her … which caused her to compare Aladdin’s palace most unfavourably with the dolls’ house.” “There was the day when, fully dressed, she brought the shower-bath about her ears and there was the day when, going up in the lift, she accidentally touched the ‘stop’ button, and remained stuck between two floors for the rest of the afternoon. “Needless to say, there were at first a few disasters,” wrote Sackville-West. The sprite has been party to all the major moments of fairytale history, including the creation of Aladdin’s palace and Cinderella’s ball, but has now, in the trust’s words, “embraced the bobbed hair and short skirts of the 1920s”.
The Royal Collection Trust describes it as a whimsical tale about a fashionable and ageless sprite who moves into the dolls’ house “and promptly makes herself at home – sampling the vintages in the wine cellar, riding the electric lift and luxuriating in the marble bathrooms”. While Sackville-West’s miniature book can still be seen on the dolls’ house’s shelves at Windsor Castle, it has never been published. Writers including Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle also contributed tiny volumes for the library, but according to the Royal Collection Trust, which will publish A Note of Explanation on 16 October, Sackville-West was one of the few authors to pen a story exclusively for the dolls’ house. It was one of 200 volumes created for the library of Queen Mary’s dolls’ house, a replica of an Edwardian residence.
Sackville-West wrote A Note of Explanation in 1922 on pages measuring just 39 x 10mm.
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