THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER : JULIA PASTRANA'S LONG JOURNEY HOME.; with essays by Laura Anderson Barbata, Jan Bondeson, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Grant H. Kester, Bess Lovejoy, Nicholas Márquez-Grant ; edited by Laura Anderson Barbata and Donna Wingate
Seattle: Lucia/Marquand, 2012. illustrations (chiefly color), color map. Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) was a gifted singer, musician and dancer who could converse in English, Spanish and French. She also suffered from one of the most extreme cases of hypertrichosis lagunigosa on record and severe gingival hyperplasia: her.....