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Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins

By Sarah Miller
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By Sarah Miller
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From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s.

On February 5, 1908, Kate Skinner, a 21-year-old unmarried barmaid in Brighton, England, gave birth to twin girls. They each had ten fingers and ten toes, but were joined back to back at the base of the spine. Freaks, monsters--that's...

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Teens & YAHistory - TeensBiography - TeensUnited States History - TeensUnited States History - 20th Century - TeensGeneral & Miscellaneous Biography - TeensUnited States->History->20th century->Teen nonfictionBiography->General & Miscellaneous->Teen nonfiction