Madame Maria Teresa, the Amazing Corsican Fairy. Depicted with a normal size woman. Born in Corsica in 1743, exhibited at fairs in England from 1770, at her London apartment in 1775, and on stage in Dublin and Edinburgh in 1776 where she danced a minuet and Corsican jig. She died in childbirth in 1790. Madame Teresia, the Corsican Fairy. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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