Sarah Miller

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Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined TwinsHardcover, 27 April 2021

Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins
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Reading Age
Ages: 12
Grade Levels
7
Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Date Published
27 Apr 2021
ISBN-10
059311972X
ISBN-13
9780593119723

Description

From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s.

On February 5, 1908, Kate Skinner, a 21-year-old unmarried barmaid in Brighton, England, gave birth to twin girls. They each had ten fingers and ten toes, but were joined back to back at the base of the spine. Freaks, monsters--that's what they were called. Mary Hilton, Kate's employer and midwife, adopted Violet and Daisy and promptly began displaying the babies as Brighton's United Twins. Exhibitions at street fairs, carnivals, and wax museums across England and Scotland followed. At 8 years old, the girls came to the United States, eventually becoming the stars of sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. In a story loaded with questions about identity and exploitation, Sarah Miller delivers a completely compelling, empathetic portrait of two sisters whose bonds were so sacred that nothing -- not even death-- would compel Violet and Daisy to break them.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 12
Author:
Sarah Miller
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
27 April 2021
Dimensions:
23.37 x 15.75 x 3.3 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 7
ISBN-10:
059311972X
ISBN-13:
9780593119723
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Weight:
566.99 gm

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