Great Writers & The Cats Who Owned Them / Susannah Fullerton.
Throughout history, cats and writers have bonded together in a magical combination of comfort, companionship and inspiration. The famous authors featured here range from Samuel Johnson, whose cat Hodge dined on oysters, and Edward Lear, whose charismatic cat Foss was missing half his tail, to Margaret Mitchell, L. M. Montgomery and Dorothy L. Sayers, who rescued her kitten Blitz from a bombsite. Each chapter delves into the relationship between authors and the felines who condescended to share their homes and desks, revealing intriguing aspects of our much-loved writers' lives and celebrating the ways in which cats pure-bred and moggy, large and small, graceful and eccentric enriched the world of literature. Included fun additional features on cats in bookshops, libraries and hotels.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781851246540
- ISBN: 1851246541
- Physical Description: 274 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Oxford : Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025.
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-266) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- INTRODUCTION -- HODGE, for whom Dr Johnson bought oysters / paws for thought Petrarch's cat -- SELIMA, whose death was memorialized for Horace Walpole / paws for thought The mad poet's cat -- RUMPELSTILZCHEN, ruler of Robert Southey's 'Cat's Eden' / paws for thought The literary origins of the Tom Cat -- MYSOUFF I, who permitted Alexandre Dumas to escort him home / paws for thought An author and the cat flap -- FOSS, who owned Edward Lear / paws for thought The first book of cat care -- BOB, who helped Charles Dickens open letters / paws for thought The literary Cheshire cat -- BAMBINO, whose slave was Mark Twain / paws for thought The literary hotel cat -- LA CHATTE, who held Colette under her spell / paws for thought The cat of The Incredible Journey -- DAFFY, who knew Anne of Green Gables before anybody else / paws for thought Kipling's cat -- NELSON, who was Chief Mouser to Sir Winston Churchill / paws for thought Library cats -- BOISE, who was a Christmas treat for Ernest Hemingway / paws for thought The literary cats of Harry Potter -- OLD TIMER, who gained Margaret Mitchell's sympathies / paws for thought Theatre cats -- BLITZ, who murdered mice for Dorothy L. Sayers / paws for thought T.S. Eliot's cat poems -- SAMBO, who helped Paul Gallico remain in a state of delusion / paws for thought Nursery-rhyme cats -- BLUEBELL, who critiqued Dame Muriel Spark's manuscripts / paws for thought The cat who helped children learn to read -- EL MAGNIFICO, who enchanted Doris Lessing / paws for thought Socks, the letter-writing cat -- WOOSKIT, who morphed into Slinky Malinki for Dame Lynley Dodd -- TAILPIECE.
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