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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: big, bold, adventurous life of Lavinia Warren
  name:
    name part: Raum, Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Lavinia Warren never let her height, or the lack of it, prevent her from leading a full and adventurous life. Although she never grew more than three feet tall, she became a beloved teacher, a world traveler, an entertainer and the friend of many powerful figures. Lavinia was teaching at a local school when she heard about an opportunity to travel doing shows as a "human curiosity" on a Mississippi River boat. Eventually she met P. T. Barnum and worked at his American Museum. It was there that she met Charles Stratton, a little person known to the world as "Tom Thumb." Their wedding, which took place on February 10, 1863, brought joy to a nation at war. President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln held a reception for the couple at the White House. The newlyweds later toured the United States and the world. Lavinia faced several tragedies but always found the strength to go on. Lavinia's extraordinary story also provides a social history of one of the most devastating periods in American history. With additional material on Tom Thumb Weddings, readers' questions, time line and notes and bibliography.
  table of contents: Living life small -- A curious opportunity -- Drifting toward war -- Moving onto the world's stage -- Charley -- Friends or lovers? -- The biggest little wedding -- At the White House -- Traveling near and far -- Dangerous journeys -- The other side of the world -- "I belong to the public" -- Tom Thumb weddings -- Questions to ponder -- Time line.
  target audience: juvenile
  note: Elizabeth Raum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Magri, M. Lavinia (Mercy Lavinia)
      name part: 1841-1919
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Magri, M. Lavinia (Mercy Lavinia)
      name part: 1841-1919
  subject:
    topic: Women circus performers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Women circus performers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Dwarfs (Persons)
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Dwarfs (Persons)
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: JUVENILE NONFICTION
    topic: Biography & Autobiography
    topic: Historical
  subject:
    topic: JUVENILE NONFICTION
    topic: Biography & Autobiography
    topic: Performing Arts
  subject:
    topic: JUVENILE NONFICTION
    topic: Biography & Autobiography
    topic: Women
  classification: GV1811.M335 R38 2018
  classification: 791.3092 B
  identifier: 9780912777504
  identifier: 0912777508
  identifier: 9780912777535
  identifier: 9780912777511
  identifier: 2017060546
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180112
    record change date: 20191021080910.0
    record identifier: in00003989780