I remember the Ramona time warp, and Beezus wanting a Dorothy Hamill haircut. My mother had a Dorothy Hamill haircut. it wasn't possible for me with my curly hair, and I wanted it long so I could have braids like Laura's, but I lacked the patience to grow it out, especially since having it brushed HURT. My aunt sewed me a calico gown and a sunbonnet, though. I adored her for that.
I don't remember the Betsy time warp - I suspect my school library didn't have the new ones.
There weren't any more Rumer Godden books about Tottie, but there were other dolls! There were several about the Japanese dolls, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Miss Plum arrived in her own book, and so did the boy, Little Peach. MOAR DOLL BOOKS.
Another marvelous doll book, NOT by Rumer Godden, is "Hitty: Her First Hundred Years." Get the original, not the later abridged version pitched at younger kids.
I didn't read the two other books you mentioned, but OMG CALOMEL. I only learned about that through Heinlein and that it was MERCURY and TOXIC and used as a laxative. Scary!
The archaic medicines I remember were the quinine in Little House on the Prairie for "fever and ague" which was malaria, and the belladonna Beth took for her fever in Little Women, which I realized years later when working in a natural foods store had to be HOMEOPATHIC belladonna, since homeopathy was very popular at the time (and way safer than calomel, if it came to that) and in homeopathy, belladonna is the go-to remedy for fever with red face! Oh, and in the British books, there always seemed to be calf's-foot jelly and beef tea for invalids. I've figured out the calf's-foot jelly, but even with the help of historical cookbooks, I haven't quite sorted out what distinguishes beef TEA from beef BROTH. It's so weird!
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I don't remember the Betsy time warp - I suspect my school library didn't have the new ones.
There weren't any more Rumer Godden books about Tottie, but there were other dolls! There were several about the Japanese dolls, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Miss Plum arrived in her own book, and so did the boy, Little Peach. MOAR DOLL BOOKS.
Another marvelous doll book, NOT by Rumer Godden, is "Hitty: Her First Hundred Years." Get the original, not the later abridged version pitched at younger kids.
I didn't read the two other books you mentioned, but OMG CALOMEL. I only learned about that through Heinlein and that it was MERCURY and TOXIC and used as a laxative. Scary!
The archaic medicines I remember were the quinine in Little House on the Prairie for "fever and ague" which was malaria, and the belladonna Beth took for her fever in Little Women, which I realized years later when working in a natural foods store had to be HOMEOPATHIC belladonna, since homeopathy was very popular at the time (and way safer than calomel, if it came to that) and in homeopathy, belladonna is the go-to remedy for fever with red face! Oh, and in the British books, there always seemed to be calf's-foot jelly and beef tea for invalids. I've figured out the calf's-foot jelly, but even with the help of historical cookbooks, I haven't quite sorted out what distinguishes beef TEA from beef BROTH. It's so weird!