The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder

In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey.

The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.

Prelude; I: Surrey; 1 The town: 'peaceable neighbours who are willing to live quietly'; 2 The women: 'they workt for me'; 3 The births: 'a Fact of which there was no Instance in Nature'; II: London; 4 The bagnio: 'several persons of distinction'; 5 Confession: 'I was loath She should touch me'; 6 The punishment: 'some judge very hard of ye poor woman'; III: The public; 7 The press: a 'filthy story at best'; 8 Body politics: 'the beautiful uniform Order'; 9 Afterlife: 'The Impostress Rabbett breeder'