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Memoirs of a Midget
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Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a “passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals.” Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year—in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus.
[Walter de la MareWalter de la Mare (1873–1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a MidgetMemoirs of a Midget. Other major works include the children’s novel, The Three Royal MonkeysThe Three Royal Monkeys, Henry BrockenHenry Brocken, The ReturnThe Return, and Desert IslandsDesert Islands.]
[Alison LurieAlison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grown-UpsDon’t Tell the Grown-Ups and Boys and Girls ForeverBoys and Girls Forever. She has taught children’s literature and folklore at Cornell University.]
[Walter de la MareWalter de la Mare (1873–1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a MidgetMemoirs of a Midget. Other major works include the children’s novel, The Three Royal MonkeysThe Three Royal Monkeys, Henry BrockenHenry Brocken, The ReturnThe Return, and Desert IslandsDesert Islands.]
[Alison LurieAlison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grown-UpsDon’t Tell the Grown-Ups and Boys and Girls ForeverBoys and Girls Forever. She has taught children’s literature and folklore at Cornell University.]
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