What are Madame Alexander® Dolls?
Madame Alexander® dolls are manufactured by the Alexander Doll Company. The company was started by Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman,born to Russian immigrants, on 9 March 1895. Her mother named her Bertha, but Madame Alexander later changed her name to Beatrice, since she thought that the name Beatrice sounded more elegant. Madame Alexander’s stepfather owned the first doll hospital in the U.S. The family lived above the hospital in Brooklyn, New York. The young Bertha often played with the dolls that waited to be repaired by her father in the doll hospital. Since she was always surrounded by them, she developed a love for dolls and desired to create her own.
