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The 1814–15 Pig-faced Lady craze in London and the subsequent hoax in Paris were the last occasions in which the mainstream press reported the existence of pig-faced women as fact. [62] By the 1860s the fad for exhibiting "pig-faced women" at fairs was losing popularity, [3] although they continued to be exhibited until at least the 1880s. [2]
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Pig-faced women, generally having a body of a human but the face of a pig, appeared without warning in Holland, England and France in the late 1630s.Some people thought that these often rich women were under a magical curse, in which they could be beautiful to their husbands and ugly to the world at large, or pretty outside the pen but porkers to their men.
Steevens' Hospital in 1800. Steevens was born in 1653 in Wiltshire, in England. She was the twin sister of Richard Steevens (1653–1710), a Dublin physician. They were the children of John, a Royalist cleric, and his wife Constance. [1]
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This explicit shushing is a common thread throughout the Grimms' take on folklore; spells of silence are cast on women more than they are on men, and the characters most valued by male suitors are those who speak infrequently, or don't speak at all. On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked.