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The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan
Anna Swan grew to an astonishing size -- nearly 2.5 metres (almost 8 feet) tall. She was billed as ?The Nova Scotia Giant Girl? at P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York. But despite her unusual and challenging physical attributes, she rose above adversity and led a life of love, happiness and great accomplishments. This is her remarkable story.
The True Tale of a Giantess
Anna Swan dreamed of a life as big as she was. “When I was small, I was already big news,” begins this picture book biography of Anna Swan. “Because when I was small, I was already TREMENDOUS.” Anna was thirteen pounds at her birth in Nova Scotia in 1846. She grew steadily until she was nearly eight feet tall, and never felt that she fit into her small country life. Then, at age seventeen, Anna moved to New York City to be part of P. T. Barnum’s Gallery of Wonders — and her life changed forever. Fame, world travel, true love! This real-life giantess lived a real-life storybook adventure!
The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan
On a balmy August morning in 1846, a child was born to Ann and Alexander Swan in the couple's small wood cabin in Millbrook, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. This in itself was not odd, as home was where babies where most often born in the mid 19th century. What was surprising, however, was that Anna Swan weighed an amazing 6 kilograms (13 pounds) -almost twice the size of an average newborn. Anna Swan grew to an astonishing size -nearly 2.5 meters (almost 8 feet) tall. She was billed as "The Nova Scotia Giant Girl" at P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York. But despite her unusual and challenging physical attributes, she rose above adversity and led the life of love, happiness and great accomplishments. This is her remarkable story.
Giants of Nova Scotia
This double biography depicts the lives of the famed Nova Scotia giantess Anna Swan (1846-88) and the celebrated Cape Breton giant Angus McAskill (1825-63). These two splendid and singular celebrities toured the world entertaining royalty and impressing audiences from town halls to palaces. Angus and Anna's Scottish influences were deeply embedded from childhood and although it was unlikely the two ever met, the similarities in their lives were uncanny. During their adventures, both giants worked with and met many unusual characters. Both met Queen Victoria. Anna married an American giant and the two toured as "The Tallest Married Couple in the World." The book explores the causes of giganti...
Anna Swan: Nova Scotia's Remarkable Giantess
Industry Canada presents information on the Canadian giant Anna Swan (1846-1888). Swan was 18 pounds at birth, and she grew to 7'11" tall and over 400 pounds in adulthood. Industry Canada highlights the life of Swan, including her discovery by P.T. Barnum, her marriage, the couple's lives in Seville, Ohio, and the final years of Swan. Industry Canada includes digital images of items related to Swan and her family, games, and information on life in the 1800s.
Swan
A middle-grade novel-in-verse that reimagines the childhood of Nova Scotia Giantess Anna Swan--a woman who has captivated the world for over two centuries. With backmatter chronicling the real Anna Swan's later life and a brief history of the region she grew up in, Swan is a brilliantly imagined story of faith, family, and learning to love the body you're in.
Dance of the Swan
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1881, Anna Pavlova grew up dreaming of becoming a prima ballerina. Throughout her lifetime, Anna inspired and encouraged people around the world with her exceptionally graceful and expressive dance. Believing that expressing beauty is essential to the human spirit, Anna strove to help audiences discover the soaring beauty that could uplift their spirits.
The Singing Swan
Miss Seward was an active-minded woman, who made many contacts among the bookish groups of her day. Although her work has suffered almost complete effacement, her personality survives by reason of the strong force within itself. Her doings, her friendships, her correspondence, and her opinions are not without real significance to those who are even slightly interested in the literary history of the reign of George III. -- author's note, p. xiii.
