Melanie Benjamin
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English
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Born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump in 1841, she was better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb. Only 32-inches high, she refused to let her stature cost her opportunity and used her limited height to limitless advantage with P.T. Barnum's circus. Now Benjamin shares the fictional autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb's public triumphs and personal tragedies.
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English
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A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife.
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...