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Review-A-Day"The only problem with Emma Donoghue's collection, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, is that it's hard to stop yourself from skipping to the end of each story. There readers will find a note from Donoghue explaining the historical background of the juicy tale they've just read, whether it's the sailor who was drugged into marrying a spinster or the woman who, yes, faked the births of over a dozen dead rabbits....Her endeavor results in the intimate kind of history we often crave, allowing us to be privy to the terrifying, scandalous or heartbreaking conversations that history books usually leave to our imaginations....Donoghue animates these obscure pieces of the past with often humorous dialogue and surprising emotional invention." Suzy Hansen, Salon.com (read the entire Salon review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Donoghue finds her inspiration for these wry, robust tales in obscure scraps of historical records: an engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits; a plague ballad; surgical case notes; theological pamphlets; an articulated skeleton. Here kings, surgeons, soldiers, and ladies of leisure rub shoulders with cross-dressers, cult leaders, poisoners, and arsonists. Whether she's spinning the tale of an Irish soldier tricked into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian surgeon's attempts to "improve" women, a seventeenth-century countess who ran away to Italy disguised as a man, or an "undead" murderess returning for the maid she left behind to be executed in her place, Emma Donoghue brings to her stories an "elegant, colorful prose filled with unforgettable sights, sounds and smells" (Elle). Here she summons the ghosts of those women who counted for nothing in their own day, but who come to unforgettable life in fiction. About the AuthorEmma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. in eighteenth-century fiction at Cambridge. She is the author of three novels, a book of fairy tales, and several works of literary history. She lives in Ontario, Canada. For further information and current news, go to www.EmmaDonoghue.com Table of Contentscontents Preface o xi Acknowledgments o xiii The Last Rabbit o 1 Acts of Union o 17 The Fox on the Line o 33 Account o 47 Revelations o 53 Night Vision o 75 Ballad o 87 Come, Gentle Night o 99 Salvage o 115 Cured o 129 Figures of Speech o 151 Words for Things o 159 How a Lady Dies o 175 A Short Story o 195 Dido o 205 The Necessity of Burning o 221 Looking for Petronilla o 241
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