Bibliograph

Shaggy muses, the dogs who inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brönte, Maureen Adams

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Shaggy muses, the dogs who inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brönte, Maureen Adams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shaggy muses

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

77494417

Responsibility statement

Maureen Adams

Sub title

the dogs who inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brönte

Summary

"Based on diaries, letters, and other contemporary accounts--and featuring many illustrations of the writers and their dogs--these five miniature biographies allow us unparalleled intimacy with women of genius in their hours of domestic ease and inner vulnerability"--Jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Author's note -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush -- Emily Brontë and Keeper -- Emily Dickinson and Carlo -- Edith Wharton and Foxy, Linky, and the dogs in between -- Virginia Woolf and Gurth, Grizzle, and Pinka -- Afterword: the dogs

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