by Melanie Benjamin
The novel is very episodic, following the life of Lavinia Bump in chronological order. It lacks suspense, going from one incident on to the next. The Victorianesque first-person narrator gets in her own way much of the time, interrupting conversations to add comments to the reader, most of which are...
A fictional biography of Lavinia Warren Bump,exhibited by P.T. Barnum and wife to Charles Stratton aka General Tom Thumb. Ends shortly after the death of Charles Stratton and does not include the last 30 or so years of her life. She is a little person who strives to be more than her size.I was surp...
Though Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump Stratton, better remembered as "Lavinia/Vinnie Warren" or "Mrs. Tom Thumb", was a diminutive woman, she had a huge personality and dreams that could not be contained in her thirty-two inches of height. Though not always likable or even particularly kind, Vinnie refus...
A book about an arrogant woman who is very selfish in her attempt to gain fame and happiness. I just couldn't like Vinnie, she is not a sympathetic character. I would have been more interested if PT Barnum or Charles Stratton were the narrator.
I waited a while to write this review but not because I didn’t like the book. Oh it is very the opposite of that. I want to gush over this book so badly I do not have the words to make it sound how good it is.The author Melanie Benjamin has a knack for delving into the world of true history and b...
This is an entertaining novel about a colorful historical figure; however, it doesn't rise much above average and it has a couple of unfortunate flaws.Lavinia "Vinnie" Warren was a pre-Civil War celebrity: less than three feet tall as an adult, but dignified and ladylike, she made a career as an ent...
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