The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets

Miller, Sarah, 1979- (Author).

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Dionne quintuplets.
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ISBN: 9781524713812
Physical Description 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.

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The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets

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The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Prologue	p. 1
Part 1	1 IN 57,000,000 Births
Chapter 1	Quintuplets Born to Farm Wife	p. 5
Chapter 2	Canadian Woman Gives Birth to Five Girls; All Are Doing Well	p. 15
Chapter 3	Country Doctor Struggles to Save Lives of Canadian Mother and Quintuplet Girls	p. 21
Chapter 4	Progress of Quintuplets Amazes Medical World	p. 28
Chapter 5	Star Sends Assistance to Mother and Five Babes	p. 33
Chapter 6	Quintuplets May Go on Exhibit at Chicago Fair	p. 37
Chapter 7	Quintuplets' Father to Get $100 a Week While All Live	p. 40
Chapter 8	Home Turned into Hospital	p. 46
Chapter 9	Parents of Quintuplets Dazed by Sudden Fame, Offers, Gifts	p. 52
Chapter 10	Too Many Showmen After Quintuplets	p. 57
Chapter 11	Dionnes Now Have to Guard Quintuplets from Tourist Horde	p. 63
Chapter 12	Quintuplet Hospital Started Near Home of Parents	p. 69
Chapter 13	Parents of Babies Plan for Future	p. 79
Chapter 14	Parents' Wishes to Be Ignored	p. 86
Part 2	Quint-Mania
Chapter 15	Ontario Adopts Five World-Famous Little Girls	p. 93
Chapter 16	Most Famous of Mothers One of the Unhappiest	p. 99
Chapter 17	The Private Life of the Dionne Quints	p. 104
Chapter 18	Quins Lose Stage Fright, 2500 Gawkers a Day	p. 109
Chapter 19	Quintuplet Frolics Play to "Standing Room Only"	p. 115
Chapter 20	The Threat to the Quints' Happiness	p. 122
Chapter 21	Dionne Endorsements, Incorporated	p. 127
Chapter 22	Dr. Dafoe Himself	p. 133
Chapter 23	Science Designs a Life for the Dionnes	p. 137
Chapter 24	Home or Science? The Dionnes1 Case Debated	p. 144
Chapter 25	Just One Big Unhappy Family	p. 151
Chapter 26	Guardians of Dionnes Seek Better Relations with Tots' Parents	p. 153
Chapter 27	"Felt Right at Home with King and Queen"	p. 157
Chapter 28	Dionne Suing Dafoe for Libel; New York Photo Basis of Action	p. 166
Chapter 29	Dionne Wins Control over His Five Girls	p. 175
Part 3	Finding Home
Chapter 30	Quints Will Soon Move to New Home	p. 181
Chapter 31	Dionne Quints Get Schoolmates, Nine Specially Selected Girls	p. 194
Chapter 32	Dionne Quints 16 Now, But No Dates, Says Stern Papa	p. 203
Chapter 33	Famous Dionne Quintuplets to Be Separated for First Time This Fall	p. 208
Chapter 34	Four Quints Dry-Eyed and Close to Shock	p. 216
Chapter 35	Four Dionne Sisters Start Life Anew	p. 222
Chapter 36	Boys? Million Dollars? Dionnes Shrug Shoulders	p. 227
Chapter 37	The Dionnes: A Fight for Happiness	p. 234
Chapter 38	Quints' Story Causes New Wound	p. 241
Chapter 39	The Babies of Quintland Now: Broke and Bitter	p. 248
	Epilogue: Dionne Visit Creates New Memories	p. 257
	Afterword	p. 261
	A Note on Dialogue	p. 263
	References	p. 265
	Acknowledgments	p. 269
	Notes	p. 271
	Index	p. 301

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