The American Girl doll line, first released in 1986 by Pleasant Company, was all the rage — a number of my friends from school shamelessly boasted about their Samantha, Felicity, Elizabeth ...

Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly. To some, those might just be a random assortment of girls' names — but to past and present owners of American Girl dolls, Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly are household ...

The day I learned that the classic American ... the American Girl Historical Collection. The three dolls initially on offer were Kirsten Larson, a plucky pioneer girl from 1854; Samantha ...

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 ...

She designed the original three American Girl dolls—the well-to-do orphan Samantha Parkington ... theatre kits, paper dolls, D.I.Y. craft kits, a clothing line, an annual Girl of the Year ...