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Violet & Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins
By MILLER, Sarah
- ISBN
- 9780593119723
- Publisher
- Random Schwartz & Wade
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2021 | Middle To High School
Gr 6–8—Violet and Daisy Hilton were white conjoined twins born in 1908 to an unmarried woman in Brighton, England. In this era, medical professionals did not treat most birth defects and assumed the babies would die. Kate Skinner, their 21-year-old mother, wanted nothing to do with the girls. Mary Hilton, Skinner's midwife, saw an opportunity to capitalize on the twins' condition. Hilton adopted the sisters and put them on dis...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
