The dolls ask her if there were other dolls living in the house with her. When this news reaches the dolls, they beg Tottie to tell them everything she remembers of the house. When Great-Aunt Laura dies and the house is discovered, dusty and grimy, in her attic, it is decided that it should stay in the family and Emily and Charlotte are thrilled to receive it. Emily and Charlotte save their pennies to buy a house, but they are scarce and expensive. Living in shoe boxes is inconvenient and not at all cozy, but they manage. Like many dolls in books, the Plantaganets are a stoic lot and they suffer their lack of a true home admirably. Apple was as big as Emily's thumb and "plump and made of warm plush." As for the little boy doll, "Come fog, come fine, no one could be unkind to Apple." And Darner the dog, so named because a darning needle made up his backbone, was made of clipped wool with pipe cleaner legs and had "gone a little gray with the London grime." When Darner barked, which was only when he sensed danger, he went "Prrick! Prrriccckckckckck!"
The little family was completed by Apple and Darner.
I don't usually like celluloid dolls," and Charlotte agreed with her. There was something in her head that rattled." But, as Emily said, "There is something brave about this little doll. Really, you might have thought that Tottie was the father and he was the child but there are real fathers like that." Mrs Plantaganet, who's first name was Birdie, was "not quite right in the head. Mr Plantaganet, who was rescued from the play room of some careless, cruel children, was "hurt and abused and lost" for a long time and was "still easily made afraid of being hurt or abused again. The sisters had chosen two other dolls to be Tottie's mother and father. made of wood, she was purchased for a farthing.
Tottie, the oldest doll in the family, once belonged to Emily and Charlotte'sGreat-Grandmother and their Great-Great-Aunt Laura. In The Doll's House, Emily and Charlotte Dane are the present owners of a motley group of dolls they have named the Plantaganet family.
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