Who is Hitty?
The name Hitty, (a nickname of Mehitabel), is commonly used to refer to two things. First, Hitty is a beautiful small, antique peg-jointed wooden doll representing the figure of a child, which was purchased by Author Rachel Field and Artist Dorothy Lathrop in an antique shop in the 1920s. Second, the term Hitty is often shorthand for the Newberry Award Winning 1929 book, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, written by Rachel Field and illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop about their doll.
