Elizabeth Cole is the Doll of the Month for November 2024!
Elizabeth Cole is from Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1774. She just moved to Virginia from England, and her family are Loyalists, who are loyal to the King of England in the struggle for America to be it's own country. However, when she meets Felicity Merriman, she learns more about making her own choices, and what freedom truly means. Elizabeth was released in 2005 to coincide with the release of the movie Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, and was retired in 2011. Originally, Elizabeth was illustrated with brown hair, but to make her look less similar to Felicity and because her actress in Felicity's movie, Katie Henney, was a blonde, the doll was released with blonde hair and the illustrations were redone to reflect that.
Elizabeth was my thirteenth American Girl doll. I got her with Kaya on Christmas 2012 when I was fourteen. Kaya had loose limbs and she was my first American Girl doll that I tightened the limbs of. My mom helped and we watched the video together. I have since done that to multiple pre-loved dolls, including two Lindsey's, one being mine and the other belonging to an older friend of mine at a doll and teddy bear show. I told her some facts about Lindsey while I worked on her Lindsey doll, including that Lindsey is worth a lot of money and is rare. She said she wanted to cut Lindsey's hair to turn her into a boy, but I…
Congratulations, Elizabeth! It's been months since we had a historical character (even though she’s a best friend character) voted as the Doll of the Month. Exactly last week was Elizabeth's birthday. I actually like Elizabeth being depicted as blonde than her dark hair. When I first read the Felicity books, these were Pleasant Company books and Elizabeth had dark hair. Felicity was originally going to be a blonde called Lucy.