SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mary Toft

1703 - 1763

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Mary Toft (née Denyer; baptised 21 February 1703 – January 1763), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. In 1726, Toft became pregnant, but following her reported fascination with the sighting of a rabbit, she miscarried. Her claim to have given birth to various animal parts prompted the arrival of John Howard, a local surgeon, who investigated the matter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Toft has received more than 1,700,587 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Toft is the 461st most popular social activist (down from 355th in 2019), the 3,180th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,616th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 49.15

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Toft ranks 461 out of 840. Before her are Nikolay Bauman, Carlos Fonseca, Nazik al-Abid, Christine Delphy, Gabrielle Petit, and Kim Ok. After her are Shivakumara Swami, Megumi Yokota, Dewi Sartika, Leo Deutsch, Osvaldo Hurtado, and Lev Chernyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Mary Toft ranks 15. Before her are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Aleksei Chirikov, Vasily Trediakovsky, and Jack Broughton. After her are Jean-François Séguier, and Kashibai. Among people deceased in 1763, Mary Toft ranks 21. Before her are Olof von Dalin, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Suleiman II of Persia, Marco Foscarini, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, and Khariton Laptev. After her are Fyodor Volkov, Joseph François Dupleix, and John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Toft ranks 3,180 out of 8,785. Before her are Quentin Crisp (1908), Arthur Ransome (1884), Alan Bullock (1914), Robert Stephens (1931), Steve Bloomer (1874), and Anne Treisman (1935). After her are Emily Mortimer (1971), Joe Abercrombie (1974), Joseph Grimaldi (1778), Mike Parkes (1931), Benjamin Glazer (1887), and Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mary Toft ranks 28. Before her are Robert Catesby (1573), James Guillaume (1844), Venetia Burney (1918), Mary Dyer (1611), Josephine Butler (1828), and Donald Watson (1910). After her are Jack Sheppard (1702), Hereward the Wake (1035), Grey Owl (1888), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Octavia Hill (1838), and Emily Hobhouse (1860).

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