JENNY

When Helene decided to close her wonderful site featuring Jenny and Licca and friends, she most graciously offered it to the folks on her list to copy and keep or do whatever they wished with. I couldn't bear to see such a fantastic wealth of information be lost, so I copied the complete Jenny and Licca sections to my site.

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Jenny and Friends

Please also see:

Jenny School Uniform Dolls

MABA Barbie - Jenny's first life

Jenny's History

List of Jenny bodies

Pics of other versions of Jenny

Names, pics and characteristics of other Jenny friends

Jenny's Celebrity Friends

Paper Doll Jenny

Jenny Links

Takara Head Molds

Licca Dolls

Takara and the naming of dolls... I find some of the names of Jenny and her friends to be a little strange...The names of the Japanese girls, such as Kisara and Aya, are of course all right (though there's one girl from Yokohama called Julia, which is not very common among Japanese girls). But others seem less well-chosen. For example, Judy is supposed to be French, the typical Parisienne, but Judy is an Anglo-Saxon name, and I never met any Frenchwoman thus called. Chelsea is also supposed to be French. If I remember well it is the first name of one very famous American's daughter, but not what you would call your typical French name. Mille-feuille, from Provence, is one of the latest Jenny friends and her name is certainly French, but it's a little bit curious for a girl to have the name of a cake. I gather Takara chose it because her hobby is supposed to be baking. "Fransois" is a French name, however it's not only misspelt but also in this form a boy's name. Oh well, why not, as long as the dolls are pretty!