Adapted for screen by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things, Alasdair Gray’s 1992 steampunk novel, references La Salpêtrière, the famous hysteria hospital of late 19th century Paris. Does its heroine Bella Baxter, a 25 year-old woman with the brain of a baby, epitomise the notion of the ‘wandering womb’?
Kitty Grady
Kitty Grady is the digital editor of A Rabbit's Foot