One of a pair of Malibu Skippers bought by the Jackson sisters at the end of the Doll Games’ Golden Age, this tawny beauty displaced Aina as "Shelley’s doll," to the detriment, it is generally acknowledged, of the later Doll Games, as Mara’s virtues, while undeniable, tended toward the conventional. Modest, brave, excelling in both love and school, Mara was an A+ student, many of whose compositions have survived to the present day. She was named, apparently without irony, after a favorite children’s book, Mara, Daughter of the Nile.