Animals in Literature and History is a series focused primarily on animals and animal related topics of the nineteenth century. Cited articles feature everything from Victorian era cat funerals to Regency era Pugs in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Below are links to past articles.
Animals in Literature and History
Birds
Cats
- A Bizarre Tale of Electric Streetcars and 19th Century Cats
- A Proposed 18th Century Tax Bill Targets 27-Year-Old Spinsters...And Their Cats!
- A Scientific Justification for Spinsters: Old Maids and Cats in the Victorian Era
- A Victorian Wife's Best Friend: The Role of Cats & Dogs in Cases of Spousal Abuse
- An Unlikely Friendship: The Cat and Mouse of Lord Lucan’s Bailiff
- Black Tom, the Captain’s Imp: A 19th Century Seafaring Cat
- Boarding Houses for Victorian Cats: Holiday Care for the Family Feline
- Cat Funerals in the Victorian Era
- Classical Cats: The Feline Muses of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
- Feline Dress Improvers: The Victorian Fashion in Bustle Baskets for Cats
- Grimalkins, Gothics, & Beware the Cat
- Peter Parley Presents the Treacherous 19th Century Cat
- Robert Southey and the Cats of Greta Hall
- Sporting Cats in the 19th Century
- The Character of Cats: Depictions in Georgian and Regency Literature
Dogs
- A Parisian Dog Arrested for Theft
- A Victorian Wife's Best Friend: The Role of Cats & Dogs in Cases of Spousal Abuse
- Austen, Heyer, & the Prince of Orange: Pugs in Literature and History
- Canine Haute Couture: The Paris Salon of the Celebrated Monsieur Vivier
- Canines and Crinolines: Victorian Dogs Captured by Fashion
- Charles Dickens and Timber Doodle, the Flea-Ridden Dog
- Chaucer, Robert Burns, and Lassie: The Collie in Literature and History
- Companion Dogs as Seers, Healers, and Fairy Steeds
- Edwin Henry Landseer: 19th-Century Britain's Foremost Animal Painter
- Kissing an Italian Greyhound: A 19th Century Attorney Cites the Law
- The Care and Kenneling of 19th Century Foxhounds and Sporting Dogs
- The Deerhounds of Windsor Great Park
- The Dog on the Train: A Victorian Fox Terrier at King's Cross Station
- The Dog’s Nursemaid: An 1840 Case at the French Police Correctionelle
- The Dogs of Alexandra of Denmark: A Tour of the Kennels at Sandringham
- The Dogs’ Toilet Club: Bond Street Luxury for Victorian Canines
- The Jersey Pug's Funeral; and Other Dog Funerals of the Late Victorian Era
- The Learned Dog, Lily: A Whist-Playing Victorian Canine
- The Scottie's Petticoat and Other 19th Century Dog Tales
- Tommie, the Beloved Scotch Terrier of 19th Century Author Wilkie Collins
Fish
- A Brief History of Victorian Goldfish Globes and Goldfish-Hawkers
- Mermaids Sightings in the 19th Century
Horses
- An Intelligent Horse Delivers the Mail
- The Pretty Horsebreakers: Victorian Fashion & Competition in Rotten Row
- Victorian Magistrate Orders Child Horse Thieves to be “Well Birched”
