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Unboxing The Siren of Sussex
It's a momentous day when your author copies arrive from your publisher, especially when it's your cat who does the unboxing!...
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Feline Dress Improvers: The Victorian Fashion in Bustle Baskets for Cats
For fashionable Victorian ladies with cats, bustles provided a convenient ledge on which to strap a satin-lined cat basket....
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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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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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