- Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 246 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Series Statement
- The driftless Connecticut series
- Uniform Title
- Becoming Tom Thumb (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Becoming Tom Thumb (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages 241-242) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Prologue: playing The palace -- The boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, bullfights, and balloons -- Hop o' my thumb -- Heart of a child -- On the New York stage -- The measure of a man -- The wedding of the year -- The long and short of it -- A very strange honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the world -- At the helm -- A marriage and two funerals -- The great fire -- At Mountain Grove.
- LCCN
- 2013015056
- OCLC
- ssj0001036032
- Author
Lehman, Eric D.
- Title
Becoming Tom Thumb [electronic resource] : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
- Imprint
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
- Series
The driftless Connecticut series
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 241-242) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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