The miracle & tragedy of the 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 |
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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 |