The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery by Michelle Stacey

The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery

Michelle Stacey

256 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology challenging informative medium-paced
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A modern investigation of the case of a young Victorian woman who claimed to have survived for twelve years without food. In 1865, eighteen-year-old Mollie Fancher began suffering a myriad of ailments that included paralysis, spasms, blindness, a...

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