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I tagged a section of this article as "original research" because it goes off on a couple of tangents, first talking about fasting girls in the 1980s (without any examples), and then a paragraph of original research with no citations about annorexia in victorian society which, if anything, should be its own article. -- Luvcraft ( talk) 21:50, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
It says currently "as a result of the accidents," she lost her sense of sight, etc. What accidents? We need elaboration or a cite (or preferably both) here. Potential source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51477/true-stories-4-victorian-fasting-girls LegalTech ( talk) 15:20, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Not sure how to insert this, but the Lore podcast has an episode featuring Mollie Fancher, https://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/92 -- David Breakey ( talk) 15:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
"A tragic case was that of Sarah Jacob (May 12, 1857-December 17, 1869), the "Welsh fasting girl", who claimed not to have eaten any food at all after the age of twelve." This sentence is confusing, after all, she died at age 12, too. These sources ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/sarah_jacobs_the_fasting_girl, http://www.welshlegalhistory.org/research-jacob-trial-report.php) speaks about her stopping to eat at age 10. Might this be the correct version? Also, there seems to be contradictory data on the lenght of her final supervised fast. According to ( http://www.welshlegalhistory.org/research-jacob-trial-report.php) she died after one week.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.193.192.178 ( talk) 12:32, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
The definition of fasting girls limits them to the Victorian era (1837-1901), but this article includes Therese Neumann (1898–1962), who stopped eating in 1927, as a fasting girl. This seems contradictory, with either one claim or the other being wrong, unless it's based on the technicality that she was born just before the era ended. The definition in the first sentence does not list a citation, and I didn't find a formal one in a casual search, but most texts on the topic of "fasting girls" describe it as a phenomenon of the late 19th century. Agyle ( talk) 01:59, 2 June 2014 (UTC)