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Published Work:

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeh Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte

Reviewer:

Margaret Forster

Source:

Margaret Forster, author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Life and Loves of a Poet

Review Excerpt:

I so enjoyed SHAGGY MUSES. It manages very successfully to bring into focus exactly why these dogs were important to these writers—an intriguing mixture of providing some with confidence, some with love, some with protection and all of them with a curious sense of identification with another spirit which, sometimes, fuelled their writing. No mean feat.

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