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Overweight women

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  • [Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Now exhibiting for a short time, at 122, Fleet Street, City, opposite Punch's office : Just arrived from America the greatest wonder of the world. The great American prize lady, Miss C. Heenan ... heaviest female living, weighing 40 stone ...
  • [Undated handbill (May 1871?) advertising an appearance by Miss C. Heenan, the Great American Prize Lady, weighing 40 stone at the age of 22, at The Universum, 369 Oxford Street, London].
  • The great American Prize Lady Miss C. Heenan with her four prize presentation cups : now exhibiting for a short time only at 122, Fleet St, London.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].

    | Date: 1885
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].

    | Date: date of publication not identified
    • Books

    Fat -- a fate worse than death? : women, weight, and appearance / Ruth Raymond Thone.

    Thone, Ruth Raymond | Date: [1997]
    • Books

    You have the right to remain fat / Virgie Tovar.

    Tovar, Virgie, 1982- | Date: 2018
    • Books

    Fattily ever after / Stephanie Yeboah.

    Yeboah, Stephanie | Date: 2020
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