dual personalities

While surfing the web, I recently came across a wonderful antique dollhouse

which reminded me of how much I had wanted one as a little girl. Our mother used to tell us about the one she had shared with her sister and her descriptions only fueled my longing. As my aunt ended up with the house, I didn’t get to see it until I visited her during a college break. It was a very cool doll- house, although not as fancy as this one

or Queen Mary’s which has a room to itself at Windsor Castle.

The Victoria and Albert Museum has a whole collection of dollhouses of which Mrs. Hibberd’s from 1800 is a particularly fine example:

Here’s a close-up of a room in Mrs. Hibberd’s house.

But I think one of the most awesome dollhouses I’ve ever seen belonged to Charlotte Bronte.

It recently went up for auction with an expected selling price of about 3-4000 pounds. Sigh…
I wonder who ended up with my mother’s (and aunt’s) dollhouse. Dual personality, do you know?