The elephant man

Description:

John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in a workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within the enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, and the longings of a man.

subjects: Biography,  Fiction in English,  Human Abnormalities,  Neurofibromatosis,  Abnormalities, human,  Fiction,  Merrick, joseph carey, 1862-1890

People: Joseph Carey Merrick,  John Merrick (1862 or 3-1890)