Stephen Wade

The Girl Who Lived on Air (eBook, ePUB)

The Mystery of Sarah Jacob, The Welsh Fasting Girl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For two years Sarah Jacob was the Welsh Fasting Girl who 'lived on air'. Did she really take neither food or drink in that time? Although Sarah lived in remote rural Carmarthenshire in the 1860s she became a national sensation through the newspapers - people from all over Britain traveled to see this miraculous young girl, leaving gifts of money... Was she really miraculous? Sarah's case stood on the dividing line between belief and the evolving rationalism of science, and shortly after a team of nurses arrived from London, she died. After her death, her parents were sentenced to hard labour for her starvation. This fascinating new book unravels the many strands of the Sarah Jacob mystery - medical, spiritual, religious, legal, political, ethical, social, family - and its place in mid-Victorian Britain at the height of Empire. Author Stephen Wade provides new insight into what was a 'sensation' but also an all too human story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seren
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781720707
• Artikelnr.: 41834534

Autorenporträt

Stephen Wade is a part-time history teacher at the University of Hull and the author of 20 books on crime and law in history, including Criminal River: The History of the Thames River Police.