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STARTING POINT AND STRUCTURAL PROCESSES. "You were right," Miss Lerner says, "about my knowing ‘the prototype of old Margaret. ' And every one of her storied recollections is a real one, told for the most part in her own words. She still insists so stoutly on the reality of the ‘little old man with the high hat,' the bewitched churn, the fairies' chairs and tables, that one ends by believing in them, too. So you see the material came ready to my hand. All I had to do was to vivify it, and cast it in the most dramatic form possible.
"Old Margaret is not dead, however. She reads and re-reads ‘Little Selves,' and says she can smell the peat fire and hear the kettle humming on the hob. It was an old friend of hers who died -- of cancer, as the story ran; and Margaret used to spend many an hour talking with her those last days. Their reminiscences, however, were of the time of their young womanhood; they did not meet in the old country.