This week is a re-release of season 1, episode 5 of Vulgar History, telling the saga of the Imposteress Rabbit Breeder, Mary Toft!


This rerelease includes a new edit of the original recording and a new intro and extro.


Content warnings: animal cruelty/killing, nonconsensual gynecological procedures, Nathanael St. Andre






References:


The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England (https://bookshop.org/a/1419/978019873...) by Karen Harvey


What Mary Toft Felt: Women’s Voices, Pain, Power and the Body (https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...) by Karen Harvey (History Workshop Journal)


Why Historians Are Reexamining the Case of the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...) by Sabrina Imbler (Atlas Obscura)


Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England (https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...) By Dennis Todd


Lore, episode 45: First Impressions (https://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/45) (Lore Podcast)


Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits (https://publicdomainreview.org/2013/0...) by Niki Russell (The Public Domain Review)


An Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits (https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...) by Edward White (The Paris Review)


The Curious Case of Mary Toft (http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/...) (University of Glasgow Special Collections)


The confessions of a rabbit woman and other recently digitized tales from the Osler Library (https://news.library.mcgill.ca/the-co...) by Mary Yearl (McGill University Library News)


Mary Toft or Tofts (http://www.godalmingmuseum.org.uk/ind...) (Godalming Musem)


The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/5...) by Lucas Reilly (Mental Floss)






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