The Beginning of Tom Thumb's history. The newborn child is as big as he will ever be: the size of his father's thumb, 1869. In addition to folk tale, Tom Thumb figures in Henry Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great, which became, when printed, The Author's Farce (1731).
The Beginning of Tom Thumb's history. The newborn child is as big as he will ever be: the size of his father's thumb, 1869. In addition to folk tale, Tom Thumb figures in Henry Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great, which became, when printed, The Author's Farce (1731).