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The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits. Emma Donoghue. Harcourt: 2003 (paperback). ISBN: 0156027399. 254 pages.
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Mary Toft didn't mean to become the woman who gave birth to rabbits. But enterprising friends and family persuade this ordinary eighteenth-century English housewife to share her miraculous offspring with the world, much to her eventual shame.
This astoundingly persuasive collection of short stories inspired by strange nuggets of history proves that Irish author Donoghue has a similarly miraculous talent to share with jaded readers everywhere; she could be justly lauded as The Woman Who Gave Birth to Insane Jealousy for all the short story writers whose jaws dropped slack on their chests as they read this collection. A famous Howgarth engraving of the alleged bunny-producer set Donoghue's wildly creative gears in motion to create the title story, and in each of the others she draws upon some other mostly-forgotten historical remnant of Great Britain's meaty past to produce the tale behind a plague ballad, a theological pamphlet, or an articulated skeleton of the world's littlest little person. Put on your boots and get ready to go grave-robbing with an enthusiastically curious master of the earthiest in historical fiction.
As seen on Ellen on Seven.
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