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4 unusual facts about Baby farming


Baby farming

Australian musical The Hatpin features a mother's experience with baby farmers and was inspired by the true story of Amber Murray and the Makin family.

The book Mama's Babies by Gary Crew is the story of a child of a baby farmer in the 1890s.

The Gilbert and Sullivan opera H.M.S. Pinafore, the character of Buttercup reveals that, when a baby farmer, she had switched two babies of different social classes.

The last baby farmer to be executed in Britain was Rhoda Willis, who was hanged in Wales in 1907.



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