Almost any woman over the age of 50 can remember playing with paper dolls as a child. Friends spent hours cutting out figures and dressing them in outfits or drawing costumes themselves. Children w… ...

This was a popular scene in many homes during the “Golden Age of Paper Dolls” (1930s-1950s). Throughout the 1900s, women’s and children’s magazines began including paper dolls in their issues.

Collected at long last by Zelda’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, in THE PAPER DOLLS OF ZELDA FITZGERALD (Scribner, 116 pp., $25.99), the dolls retain an intimacy that’s more piercing somehow ...

Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Sayre home in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1919, a year before the two were married. A new collection of Zelda’s paper dolls is being published on November ...