Concept
Overweight women
Images
![[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28483820_EPH_499A_89_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[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].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28483790_EPH_499A_86_0001.jp2/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[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].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28481197_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28483819_EPH_499A_88_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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 RaymondDate: [1997]- Books
You have the right to remain fat / Virgie Tovar.
Tovar, Virgie, 1982-Date: 2018- Books
Fat, pretty and soon to be old : a makeover for self and society / Kimberly Dark.
Dark, KimberlyDate: [2019]