Julia Pastrana was an impoverished orphan granted by chance the opportunity to travel the world as a sideshow freak.
Book review: Orphans of the Carnival – meet ‘ugliest woman in the world’
Author Carol Birch’s novel reimagines 1800s freak-show poster girl Julia Pastrana, a woman born with two rare conditions who was alternately feted and shunned by a society both fascinated and repelled by physical anomalies
Julia Pastrana was an impoverished orphan granted by chance the opportunity to travel the world as a sideshow freak.