| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Wisconsin studies in autobiography |
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Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Preface; 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"; 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 |
| Summary |
Annotation Conjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Violet Hilton, English twins born in 1908, speak for themselves through memoirs that help us understand what it is like to live physically joined to someone else. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Conjoined Twins in Black and Whiteprovides contemporary readers with the twinsrsquo; autobiographies, the first two ldquo;show historiesrdquo; to be republished since their original appearance, a previously unpublished novella, and a nineteenth-century medical examination, each of which attempts to define these women and reveal the issues of race, gender, and the body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 the WWII economy forced them to the burlesque stage. The hardships, along with the triumphs, experienced by these very different sister sets lend insight into our fascination with conjoined twins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
McCoy, Millie, 1851-1912
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McCoy, Christine, 1851-1912
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Hilton, Daisy, 1908-1969.
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Hilton, Violet, 1908-1969.
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| SUBJECT |
Millie-Christine, 1851-1912 |
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Hilton, Daisy, 1908-1969 |
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Hilton, Violet, 1908-1969 |
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McCoy, Millie, 1851-1912 fast |
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McCoy, Christine, 1851-1912 fast |
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Hilton, Daisy, 1908-1969 fast |
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Hilton, Violet, 1908-1969 fast |
| Subject |
Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography
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Twins, Conjoined
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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Conjoined twins
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frost, Linda
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| LC no. |
2008041889 |
| ISBN |
9780299230739 |
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0299230732 |
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0299230740 |
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9780299230746 |
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9786612270512 |
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6612270519 |
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1282270516 |
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9781282270510 |
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