Coney-catching Robert Greene in a series of 1592 pamphlets, the titles of which included "The Defence of Conny-catching," in which he argued there were worse crimes to be found among "reputable" people, and "A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-catcher and a Shee Conny-catcher." Kirby Farrell wrote a book called "Cony-catching" in 1971. Virginia Woolf mentions "cony catchers" in her book "Orlando". Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice
Sandra Coney 30 books on topics including history, feminism, and women's health care. In 1993, Coney was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, Coney was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order, for services to women's health. Sandra Coney Sandra Lorraine Coney (born 22 October 1944) is a New Zealand local body politician, writer, feminist, historian, and women's health campaigner. She is best known for her co-authorship (with Phillida Bunkle) of a "Metro" magazine article that alleged that women had been experimented on, without their consent, at National Women's Hospital in Auckland. The article,