Femmes Macabres

Episode 11: Mary Toft: Mother of Rabbits


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In the first episode of season two, Erin and Steph discuss Mary Toft, an 18th English woman famous for giving birth to rabbits.
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Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=Hallway&Search=Search
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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Sources:
Harvey, Karen, director. Mary Toft: the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits - History Undergraduate Taster Lecture. Youtube, University of Birmingham, 4 Feb. 2019.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaHIxLCYZR4
White, Edward. “An Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits.” The Paris Review, 5 July 2016, www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/an-extraordinary-delivery-of-rabbits/.
Karen Harvey, What Mary Toft Felt: Women’s Voices, Pain, Power and the Body, History Workshop Journal, Volume 80, Issue 1, Autumn 2015, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbv029
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