Author: ANN MOORE
Title: The Fasting Woman of Tutbury Aged 58.
Description: R.S. Kirby, 1813. Engraving, 200 x 120 mm. Ann Moore claimed to have eaten nothing at all between 1807 and 1813> but the claims were eventually found to have been a hoax. From R.S. Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum> or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. 1803 - 20.

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