TY - BOOK AU - Benjamin,Melanie TI - The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: a novel SN - 9780385344159 (hbk. : acidfree paper) AV - PS3608.A876 A94 2011 U1 - 813/.6 22 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Bantam, KW - Magri, M. Lavinia KW - Women circus performers KW - United States KW - Fiction KW - Dwarfs KW - Biographical fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-424) N2 - 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 ER -