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Nov 2, 2022 · Based on Emma Donoghue 's novel of the same name and directed by Sebastián Lelio (Disobedience), this period drama is set in the 19th century and tells the true story of a social phenomenon...
- The Fasting Girls
- The Sarah Jacobs Case
- The Setting ofthe Wonder
A "fasting girl" was someone who claimed to be able to live without food, or, alternatively, others claimed these young women survived on no food. The "fasting girl" was usually in their teenage years, and would often go on to achieve celebrity status in their local community by not eating as seen inThe Wonder,when Anna's parents begin to accept mo...
Donoghue toldNewsweek that one case, in particular, caught her attention. However, she found it too sad to adapt for her 2016 novel. She said: "There was a Welsh case in the 1870s—Sarah Jacobs. It was too sad for me to write about because basically, a newspaper hired nurses who watched for, I think a week, and she died. "I came across that case in ...
Explaining her choice to set The Wonderin 1850s Ireland, Donoghue described it as a "really powerful" way to tackle sexism and the experience of women in the country for several centuries. She explained: "With the [real] fasting girls, I thought there was something really important going on about food and bodies and girls and sexuality and religion...
- Molli Mitchell
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Nov 18, 2022 · Florence Pugh plays a nurse investigating a young girl's miraculous fast in 19th-century Ireland. The film is based on a novel by Emma Donoghue but has also been inspired by some real-life...
- Henry Blodget
Aug 18, 2022 · One particular real life case appears to resemble that of The Wonder ‘s narrative—a Welsh girl named Sarah Jacob. It was said she went without food for two years. When people discovered her story, a team of nurses were assigned to observe what was happening. The girl died of starvation a week later.
Nov 4, 2022 · As revealed by Emma Donoghue on the Pan MacMillan website The Wonder is a story entirely of her own invention, but there was a series of cases of so-called “fasting girls” that captured her imagination.
Nov 22, 2022 · Netflix's latest flick is actually based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue, which is loosely inspired by The Great Famine of Ireland (otherwise known as The Great Hunger) that...
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The Wonder is based on Room author Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel of the same name, which in turn was inspired by a disturbing historical phenomenon: real-life cases of 'fasting girls' reported...
