Dolls were one of the main forms of daily entertainment expected to be embraced by girls of the 19th century	Male equivalent ===>	King of the Castle is a male activity during which one male stands atop at hill and does all he can to prevent other boys from dethroaning him.
Transcription: The dressing of dolls is a useful as well as a pleasant employment for little girls. If they are careful about small gowns, caps and spencers, it will tend to make them ingenious about their own dresses, when they are older. I once knew a girl who had twelve dolls; some of them were given her; but the greater part she herself made from rags, and her elder sister painted their lips and eyes. She took it into her head that she would dress the dolls into different dolls of different nations. No one assisted; but, by looking in a book called Manners and Customs, she dressed them with great taste and propriety. There was a laplander, wrapped up in furs; the African, with jewels on her nose and arm; the Indian, tattooed, with her hair tied tight upon the top of her head; all bowed and flounces; and the Turk spangled robes, with turban and feather. I assure you they were an extremely pretty sight. The best thing of all was, that the sewing was done with the most perfect neatness. When little girls are alone, dolls may serve for company. They can be scolded, and advised, and kissed, and taught to read, and sung to sleep- and anything else the fancy of the owner may devise.		Transcription: This is a very exceptionally simple, but nevertheless, lively sport. One player places himself atop a little mound, or hillock; he is the King of the Castle, and he endeavours to retain possession of the post, as long as possible, against the attack of his playmates, who endeavour, one at a time, to push him off. If he be driven off the mound or hillock, the player who dethrones him takes his place.