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001 2006101291
003 DLC
005 20090507095511.0
008 061222s2007 nyua b 001 0ceng
010 $a 2006101291
020 $a9780345484062 (acid-free paper)
020 $a0345484061 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm77494417
035 $a(OCoLC)77494417
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dDOV$dJED$dBUR$dOCLCQ$dYDXCP$dDLC
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050 00 $aPR111$b.A33 2007
082 00 $a820.9/9287$222
100 1 $aAdams, Maureen B.
245 10 $aShaggy muses :$bthe dogs who inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Brontë /$cby Maureen B. Adams.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBallantine Books,$cc2007.
300 $axvi, 299 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aCoaxed through a depression by her golden retriever, Adams, a psychologist and former English professor, was drawn to five women writers who relied on their dogs for emotional support. Flush distracted Elizabeth Barrett after her favorite brother's death. Formidable, eccentric Emily Bronte, who once savagely beat her fierce mastiff, Keeper, for sleeping on her bed, refused to sentimentalize the human-dog bond in Wuthering Heights. 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. Lovers of both dogs and classic writers will identify with this sweet, quirky book.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aElizabeth Barrett Browning & Flush -- Emily Brontë & Keeper -- Emily Dickinson & Carlo -- Edith Wharton & Foxy, Linky, and the dogs in between -- Virginia Woolf & Gurth, Grizzle, Pinka.
650 0 $aWomen authors, English$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen authors, American$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen dog owners$vBiography.
650 0 $aDogs$vBiography.
650 0 $aHuman-animal relationships.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006101291.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0744/2006101291-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0744/2006101291-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0744/2006101291-s.html