The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England by Karen Harvey

The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England

Karen Harvey

224 pages hardcover 2020

2 editions

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine...

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