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Shaggy muses : the dogs who inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë

Title
Shaggy muses : the dogs who inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë / Maureen Adams.
Author
Adams, Maureen B.
Publication
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Captures the extraordinary relationships that existed between five noted women writers and their dogs--including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cocker spaniel Flush, Emily Dickinson and her Newfoundland Carlo, Emily Brontë's mastiff Keeper, Edith Wharton's Pekingese Mitou, and Pinka, the cocker spaniel who helped Virginia Woolf deal with bouts of mental illness.
Subject
  • Women authors, English > Biography
  • Women authors, American > Biography
  • Women dog owners > Biography
  • Dogs > Biography
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Dogs
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Women authors, American
  • Women authors, English
  • Women dog owners
  • Engelska kvinnliga författare
  • Hundar
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush -- Emily Brontë and Keeper -- Emily Dickinson and Carlo -- Edith Wharton and Foxy, Linky, and the dogs in between -- Virginia Woolf and Gurth, Grizzle, and Pinka.
ISBN
  • 9780226005362
  • 0226005364
LCCN
2010041468
OCLC
  • ocn666235057
  • 666235057
  • SCSB-14527623
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library