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Hace 2 días · A book review that explores the social and medical context of the famous hoax of Mary Toft, who claimed to give birth to rabbits in 1726. The reviewer praises the author's focus on Toft's voice and experiences, and the analysis of the tensions and power dynamics of Georgian society.
Hace 3 días · Marie Toft er en velhavende enke, som ejer og driver godset Rønnebæksholm ved Næstved, og hun opsøger Grundtvig, da han er 63 år – og altså er en gift mand. Hun kommer, fordi hun gerne vil diskutere religiøse og samfundsmæssige spørgsmål, og de to får en tæt relation.
Although not a word was spoken by Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John during the silent apparition at Knock, the vision spoke louder than words with an eloquent message uniting earth and heaven. Father Stan Smolenski, August 22, 2021. On the rainy evening of Aug. 21, 1879, 15 persons saw a two-hour vision on the gable of St. John the Baptist ...
Hace 4 días · Women’s voices, marital cruelty and ghost reports in early modern England 1 On Saturday 8 September 1705 at 12 noon, Margaret Bargrave, an attorney’s wife and mother to Molly, sat alone in her house on Watling Street in the parish of St. Mary Bredin, Canterbury. 2 Contemplating her miserable life with an alcoholic husband who physically and verbally abused her on a regular basis, her ...
Hace 4 días · On the suppression of the alien houses, Henry V annexed the revenues of the priory of Toft or Tofts to the Carthusians of Witham, Somerset, but Edward IV transferred them in February, 1462, to the college of St. Mary and St. Nicholas (King's), Cambridge.
Hace 3 días · TOFT. The ancient parish of Toft consists of 1,285 a. (fn. 1) It is bounded on the east and west by the parishes of Caldecote and Comberton, and may once, like those parishes, have stretched north as far as the road from Cambridge to St. Neots to include Hardwick.
Hace 3 días · Quote from: "mary toft"I love it, but then I like pretty much everything Victoria Wood is involved in. If you don't like that sort of thing, you won't like it I guess. I absolutely worship all of Victoria Wood's work, except for this.
