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Maria Teresa Hart

Maria Teresa Hart

Maria Teresa Hart is a writer, editor and dulce-de-leche addict. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Vox, the Washington Post, Teen Vogue and other outlets. As an editor, Maria has worked for various publishers, including Penguin Random House, BenBella Books and Bloomsbury. She lives in Beacon, New York, with her partner David and spends her free time Googling facts about dormice.

Twentieth-century porcelain dolls made by German company Armand Marseille

How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol

Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible