Announcement of Miss Beffin's Skills

Born without arms, Sarah Beffin, like Miss Honeywell, could cut and write with her mouth and was a great and peculiar attraction at the London fairgrounds. As Ricky Jay notes, this unusually large broadside was produced for her appearance at the Bartholomew Fair, a preeminent summer fair held around Saint Bartholomew’s Day (August 24) every year in London from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.