- 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.
