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Conjoined twins in black and white : the lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton / edited by Linda Frost.
- Title
- Conjoined twins in black and white : the lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton / edited by Linda Frost.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Frost, Linda
- Description
- xiii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Provides contemporary readers with the twins' autobiographies, the first two "show histories" to be republished since their original appearance, a previously unpublished novella, and a 19th century medical examination, which attempts to define these women and reveals the issues of race, gender, and the body prompted by the twins themselves. The McKoys, born slaves, were kidnapped and taken to Britain, where they worked as entertainers until they were reunited with their mother in an emotional chance encounter. The Hiltons, cast away by their horrified mother at birth, worked the carnival circuit as vaudeville performers until World War II economy forced them to the burlesque stage"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- Wisconsin studies in autobiography
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Wisconsin studies in autobiography
- Subject
- McCoy, Millie, 1851-1912
- McCoy, Christine, 1851-1912
- Hilton, Daisy, 1908-1969
- Hilton, Violet, 1908-1969
- McCoy, Millie, 1851-1912
- McCoy, Christine, 1851-1912
- Hilton, Daisy, 1908-1969
- Hilton, Violet, 1908-1969
- Conjoined twins > United States > Biography
- Conjoined twins
- Twins, Conjoined
- Jumeaux siamois > États-Unis > Biographies
- Jumeaux siamois
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction. Peculiar intimacies -- The history of the Carolina Twins. Told in "their own peculiar way" by "one of them" -- Biographical sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin -- "The Carolina Twins" / William H. Pancoast -- Intimate loves and lives of the Hilton sisters, world famous Siamese twins -- Souvenir and life story of San Antonio's Siamese twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton -- Chained for life / Robert De Seville.
- ISBN
- 9780299230746
- 0299230740
- 9780299230739
- 0299230732
- LCCN
- 2008041889
- 40016732207
- OCLC
- 259716007
- SCSB-11335522
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library