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On page 416 of Jay Winik's "The Great Upheaval" he states that Catherine's childhood was plagued by illnesses, and one left her woefully mishapen ("the backbone running zigzag", she later wrote). As a remedy she encased herself in a painful corset that she "never removed day or night" for eighteen months."

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