Kirsten Larson moved to Minnesota in 1854 at age 9 when her family left Sweden. That year, she lost a friend to cholera, made ...
In “The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow,” Kristen Martin shows that orphanhood is neither a trope nor a metaphor.
and launched the first line of American Girl dolls. This initial offering included three dolls: Kirsten Larson, a pioneer girl from the mid-19th century; Samantha Parkington, an orphan raised by ...