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A Victorian Wife's Best Friend: The Role of Cats & Dogs in Cases of Spousal Abuse
For a battered Victorian wife, animal intervention could sometimes mean the difference between life and death. ...
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Katrina: A Victorian Ballet of Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical Cats wasn't the first production to feature a cast of dancers dressed in cat costumes....
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A Proposed 18th Century Tax Bill Targets 27-Year-Old Spinsters...And Their Cats!
In a 1777 letter to the editor of London Magazine, a gentleman has appended a proposed bill to levy a tax on old maids....
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Never Bring a Dog into a Drawing Room: The Etiquette of Paying Calls with Pets
In the Victorian era, when paying a call on a friend or acquaintance, etiquette manuals decreed that one should never bring along one’s dog....
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Charles Dickens and Timber Doodle, the Flea-Ridden Dog
In the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Dickens had a small, shaggy Havana spaniel named Timber Doodle....
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A Scientific Justification for Spinsters: Old Maids and Cats in the Victorian Era
An article in the 1880 edition of the Dundee Courier declares that “the old maid would not be typical of her class without the cat.”...
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