Review Quotes Praise for Violet and Daisy: Meticulously detailed. In a story loaded with questions about identity and exploitation, Sarah Miller delivers a completely compelling, empathetic portrait of two sisters whose bonds were so sacred that nothing - not even death- would compel Violet and Daisy to break them. At 8 years old, the girls came to the United States, eventually bing the stars of sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. Exhibitions at street fairs, carnivals, and wax museums across England and Scotland followed. Mary Hilton, Kates employer and midwife, adopted Violet and Daisy and promptly began displaying the babies as Brightons United Twins. Freaks, monsters-thats what they were called. They each had ten fingers and ten toes, but were joined back to back at the base of the spine. On February 5, 1908, Kate Skinner, a 21-year-old unmarried barmaid in Brighton, England, gave birth to twin girls. About the Book From the author of The Miracle and 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- Book Synopsis From the author of The Miracle and 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.
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