Anna swan biography
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The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan
- Intended audience: year olds
- Number of pages: 32
- Publisher: Kids Can Press
&#;When I was small, I was already big news,&#; Anna Swan tells readers in this picture book biography. When she was born in Nova Scotia in , people for miles around chattered about her. They whispered over tea and gossiped across fences. Because even when she was small, Anna was TREMENDOUS. At four years old, she was higher than a rain barrel. At six, she was taller than her mother, and by ten she towered over her father. Anna grew up feeling like she poked and bulged and jutted out from all sorts of spaces, never quite fitting into her small country life. Then, at age seventeen, Anna moved to New York City to be part of P. T. Barnum&#;s galleri of Wonders &#; and her life changed forever. Anna Swan lived an inspiring life as big as she was, filled with fame, wealth, world travel and true love.
In this thoroughly researched picture book biog
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Anna Haining Bates
Canadian woman notable for her great height (–)
Anna Haining Bates | |
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Bates (centre) with her parents | |
| Born | Anna Haining Swan ()August 6, Mill Brook, New Annan, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | August 5, () (aged&#;41) Seville, Ohio, United States |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Circus attraction |
| Known&#;for | Record height 7&#;feet 11&#;inches (&#;m) |
| Spouse | |
Anna Haining Bates (née Swan; August 6, – August 5, ) was a Canadian woman notable for her great stature of 7&#;feet 11&#;inches (&#;m).[1][2] She was one of the tallest women who ever lived. Her parents were of average height and were Scottish immigrants.
Early life
[edit]Anna Swan was born at Mill Brook, New ytterligare, Nova Scotia.[1] At birth she weighed 13 pounds (&#;kg). She was the third[3] of 13 children, all of the others being around average height. From birth she grew very rapidly. Anna's mother recalled that her daughter'
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SWAN, ANNA HAINING (Bates), giantess; b. 7 Aug. at Mill Brook, N.S., one of 13 children of Alexander Swan and Ann Graham; m. 17 June Martin Van Buren Bates, known as the “Kentucky giant”; d. 5 Aug. at Seville, Ohio.
Anna Haining Swan’s father had emigrated from Dumfries, Scotland, to Nova Scotia; her mother was a Nova Scotian whose ancestors came from the Orkneys. Anna’s parents and the other children in the family were normal in size, as was Anna herself as a baby. When she was 5 years old, however, Anna, the “Infant Giantess,” was 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighed over pounds; at 22 she was 7 feet 6 inches tall and weighed pounds.
In , when the great American showman P. T. Barnum heard about the Nova Scotian giantess, he sent an agent to New Annan, where she was then living, to bring the year-old girl and her mother to New York. Besides the opportunity to earn $1, a month being exhibited at the American Mus