Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ann Moore
Standard Name: Moore, Ann
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1807-1813: The widely publicized case of Ann Moore,...
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1807-1813
The widely publicized case of Ann Moore
, the contentious Fasting Woman of Tutbury, raised the profile of self-starvation, or fasting girls and incited debate as to its causes.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
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4 May 1813: Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury,...
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4 May 1813
Ann Moore
, the fasting woman of Tutbury, signed her mark to a confession that she had not, as claimed, lived for long periods entirely without nourishment.
A Full Exposure of Ann Moore: The Pretended Fasting Woman of Tutbury. 3rd, with additions, Printed for the author and sold by R. Baldwin and T. Wayte, 1813.
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Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
531-4
3 April 1817: Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess...
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3 April 1817
Mary Baker
launched her brief career as Princess Caraboo, when an Overseer of the Poor at Almondesbury in Gloucestershire reported her presence to a local magistrate.
Gutch, John Matthew. “Caraboo, 1817”. Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised upon the Benevolence of a Lady Residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a Young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy.
