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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Coaxed through a depression by her golden retriever, Adams, a psychologist and former English professor, was drawn to five exceptional women writers who relied on their loyal dogs for emotional support. Flush distracted Elizabeth Barrett after her favorite brother's death, and the poet wrote about the unsettling similarity between lapdogs and women in Victorian England: both powerless and needing to please others. Formidable, eccentric Emily Brontë, who once savagely beat her fierce mastiff, Keeper, for sleeping on her bed, refused to sentimentalize the human-dog bond in Wuthering Heights, which depicts innocent pets being hung. Carlo, a Newfoundland, comforted Emily Dickinson in a dark time—when she may have been in love with a married man—and Edith Wharton mourned the death of one of her pooches more than the death of her mother. And Adams suggests that Virginia Woolf, depicting a dog's trauma in her biography of Flush, who was dognapped for ransom, dealt with her own childhood molestation (a picture of Woolf's dog, Pinka, appeared on the cover of Flush's biography). Although Adams's knowledgeable minibiographies are necessarily skewed toward a specialized subject matter, lovers of both dogs and classic writers will identify with this sweet, quirky book. Illus. (July 31)
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From Booklist
Adams takes a fascinating look at the private lives of five women writers through their relationships with their dogs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was in deep mourning for the death of her brother when a friend sent her Flush, a lively little cocker spaniel that brightened her days and drew her out of her isolation. Emily Brontë scorned lapdogs but would roam the moors of Haworth with her ferocious mastiff, Keeper. Emily Dickinson shared her poems and her thoughts with Carlo, her Newfoundland, while Edith Wharton had a succession of small dogs, such as Chihuahuas and Pekingese, throughout her life, and they became her constant companions in old age. Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard, both loved dogs, and Virginia even penned a novel about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog, Flush, who was abducted several times by nefarious dognappers. Adams elucidates each woman's emotional connection to the dogs in her life and also shows how each canine made it into a great authoress' writing. Written in lively, accessible prose, this absorbing, wholly unique book is a must-read for literature- and dog-lovers alike. Huntley, Kristine
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Coaxed through a depression by her golden retriever, Adams, a psychologist and former English professor, was drawn to five exceptional women writers who relied on their loyal dogs for emotional support. Flush distracted Elizabeth Barrett after her favorite brother's death, and the poet wrote about the unsettling similarity between lapdogs and women in Victorian England: both powerless and needing to please others. Formidable, eccentric Emily Brontë, who once savagely beat her fierce mastiff, Keeper, for sleeping on her bed, refused to sentimentalize the human-dog bond in Wuthering Heights, which depicts innocent pets being hung. Carlo, a Newfoundland, comforted Emily Dickinson in a dark time—when she may have been in love with a married man—and Edith Wharton mourned the death of one of her pooches more than the death of her mother. And Adams suggests that Virginia Woolf, depicting a dog's trauma in her biography of Flush, who was dognapped for ransom, dealt with her own childhood molestation (a picture of Woolf's dog, Pinka, appeared on the cover of Flush's biography). Although Adams's knowledgeable minibiographies are necessarily skewed toward a specialized subject matter, lovers of both dogs and classic writers will identify with this sweet, quirky book. Illus. (July 31)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Adams takes a fascinating look at the private lives of five women writers through their relationships with their dogs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was in deep mourning for the death of her brother when a friend sent her Flush, a lively little cocker spaniel that brightened her days and drew her out of her isolation. Emily Brontë scorned lapdogs but would roam the moors of Haworth with her ferocious mastiff, Keeper. Emily Dickinson shared her poems and her thoughts with Carlo, her Newfoundland, while Edith Wharton had a succession of small dogs, such as Chihuahuas and Pekingese, throughout her life, and they became her constant companions in old age. Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard, both loved dogs, and Virginia even penned a novel about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog, Flush, who was abducted several times by nefarious dognappers. Adams elucidates each woman's emotional connection to the dogs in her life and also shows how each canine made it into a great authoress' writing. Written in lively, accessible prose, this absorbing, wholly unique book is a must-read for literature- and dog-lovers alike. Huntley, Kristine
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