01279cam a2200289 4500 135706123 TxAuBib 20130429120000.0 101228s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010052863 9780385344159 hbk. : acid-free paper 0385344155 hbk. : acid-free paper TxAuBib Benjamin, Melanie. The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2011. 424 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-424). Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities. 20130429. eam. Magri, M. Lavinia (Mercy Lavinia), 1841-1919 Fiction. Women circus performers United States Fiction. Dwarfs United States Fiction. Biographical fiction.