Benjamin, Melanie.

The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. - London : Bantam, c2012. - 458 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-424).

Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.

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Magri, M. Lavinia 1841-1919 --Fiction.


Women circus performers--United States--Fiction.
Dwarfs--United States--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.

PS3608.A876 / A94 2011

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