A Girl for All Time is a British range of historical and modern dolls, doll accessories, and books founded by Frances Cain.
A Girl for All Time initially launched with a historical line of dolls, accessories and books which follows a fictional English family through 500 years of British history. In 2016, the company expanded to include contemporary dolls that featured friends who all live in modern day London.
Founder Frances Cain launched the brand at the London Toy Fair in 2012. The company has won a number of toy industry awards for design and craftsmanship, including 9 Oppenheim Toyportfolio awards.
Dolls and accessories
A Girl for All Time produces two ranges: Your Historical Girl and Your Modern Girl. Both ranges feature 16" dolls, doll costumes, and other accessories. The dolls are all vinyl, with a vinyl torso and have articulated elbows and knees.
Your Historical Girl has seven characters. This line follows the adventures of the first-born girls of the fictional Marchmont family through 500 years from Tudor England to the present day. Matilda, Your Tudor Girl, is the first character in the range and lives during the reign of Henry VIII of England. Matilda keeps a secret diary and hides it away in her trunk which is then passed down to each first-born girl in each generation of Marchmont women.
The rest of the historical line includes the following characters: Elinor, Your Elizabethan Girl, whose story is set in London at the end of Elizabeth I of England's reign. Then there is Lydia, Your Georgian Girl, whose story is set in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to the American Revolutionary War. Helena, Your Regency Girl, who is living in higher class