In 1726, a poor, illiterate 25-year-old servant named Mary Toft became pregnant, and she tricked doctors into thinking she ...

Mary Toft was a woman from Godalming, who achieved notoriety in 1726 when she purportedly gave birth to a litter of rabbits. In reality, the animal parts Toft “delivered” were being surreptitiously ...

In the autumn of 1726, an extraordinary claim gripped Britain and left even some of the country's most respected physicians ...

In 1726, an English woman named Mary Toft gave birth to rabbits. Dexter Palmer’s new novel spins a tale from this historical event, but it’s less concerned with how Mary deceived all of England than ...

What it’s about: One of the most bizarre stories we’ve yet come across. In 1726, a 25-year-old woman from Surrey convinced several doctors she had given birth to disembodied animal parts, and in one ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Katharine Grant MARY TOFT; Or, The Rabbit Queen By Dexter Palmer In 1726, in Godalming, England, ...