The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits (Paperback)
Emma Donoghue
From Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.
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From Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 12 October 2005
About this Item
Paperback. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it. My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life: surgical case-notes; trial records; a plague ballad; theological pamphlets; a painting of two girls in a garden; an articulated skeleton. Some of the ghosts in this collection have famous names; others were written off as cripples, children, half-breeds, freaks and nobodies. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is named for Mary Toft, who in 1726 managed to convince half England that she had done just that.So this book is what I have to show for ten years of sporadic grave-robbing, ferreting out forgotten puzzles and peculiar incidents, asking 'What really happened ', but also, 'What if * From the bestselling author of Slammerkin comes a collection of fascinating historical stories Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781860499548
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits (...
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, London
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new
About this title
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it. My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life: surgical case-notes; trial records; a plague ballad; theological pamphlets; a painting of two girls in a garden; an articulated skeleton. Some of the ghosts in this collection have famous names; others were written off as cripples, children, half-breeds, freaks and nobodies. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is named for Mary Toft, who in 1726 managed to convince half England that she had done just that.
So this book is what I have to show for ten years of sporadic grave-robbing, ferreting out forgotten puzzles and peculiar incidents, asking 'What really happened?', but also, 'What if?
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