Monstrous Offspring
Freya Johnston: The Rabbit-Breeder’s Hoax, 8 October 2020
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and 18th-Century England
by Karen Harvey.
Oxford, 211 pp., £16.99, January,978 0 19 873488 8 Show More
by Karen Harvey.
Oxford, 211 pp., £16.99, January,
“... Howard wrote excitedly about the case to England’s highest-ranking doctors and scientists, and King George I sent two men to investigate: Nathanael St André, Swiss surgeon-anatomist to the royal family, and Samuel Molyneux, secretary to the Prince of Wales. They arrived in Guildford at an opportune moment, just as Toft was about to give birth to a 15th ... ”