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In her national best vendor Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin thought the life of the woman who encouraged Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new book, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female physique whose story hasn't fully been told: a female who became a 19th hundred years icon and inspiration-and whose most overwhelming limitation became her very best strength. "Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead, I'd define it." She was only two-foot eight-inches large, but her star gets to out to us greater than a hundred years later. As a kid, Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Bump was motivated to live a life a life covered away from the public. Instead, she reached away to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, hitched the very small superstar Standard Tom Thumb in the marriage of the hundred years, and transformed in to the world's most unpredicted celebrity. Here, in Vinnie's singular and spirited tone, is her amazing adventure-from a showboat "freak" revue where she endured jeering mobs to her fateful ending up in the two men who change her life: P. T. Barnum and Charles Stratton, AKA Tom Thumb. Their wedding would captivate the country, preempt coverage of the Civil Conflict, and usher them in to the White House and the company of presidents and queens. But Vinnie's popularity would also endanger the person she prized most: her similarly-sized sister, Minnie, a delicate soul struggling to evade the glare of Vinnie's spotlight. A barnstorming book of the Gilded Era, and of a woman's general population triumphs and personal tragedies, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the amazing epic of any heroine who conquered the country with a heart and soul as large as her dreams-and whose history will surely win over yours.
