2022-07-15
54 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is my fact.
My fact this week is that the author George Elliott had a massive head.
That's very similar to another fact that we've had a few years ago.
This is sort of a sequel fact, this is so for fans of the show you might have remembered in episode 265,
we delivered the jaw breaking news
that George Elliott had a secret jaw slapping news jaw dropping news breaking news my facts are really aggressive fema snapping news coming to you so what was the news we delivered then so the jaw dropping news no breakage is
that 50 years after she died for 50 years was the fact that she had a massive hand but that was a secret and the family denied her having it.
Anyway so this was written in a book which was back in the 1840s so there was a biography that was put together of George Elliott by a writer called Matilda Blind or Mathilda Blind,
I can't get the exact pronunciation, could be blind as well, could be what could be blind, it's probably Matilde Blind,
Matilde Blind and so Matilde Blind wrote a biography of her and she went round,
she's South African, Matilde Blind, she's a kiwi, sorry she wrote not a biography,
a biography and during the research period she went to the farm where George Elliott used to live and there was a couple there called the Brays and it was Mrs.
Cara Bray who told everyone that she had this big hand however when I was reading the book recently I also discovered
that her husband became obsessed with George Elliott because he noticed that she also had a ginormous head.
Was she just huge?