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A Book of Cats
A Book of Cats: Literary, Legendary and Historical | Dorothy Margaret Stuart
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The cat -- a goddess, an enigma, a playmate and a friend. Dorothy M. Stuart approaches her subject along four main roads: archaeology, history, legend and literature. The Ancient Egyptian Mau is here; the enchanted cats of Irish legend; the Gib of Gammer Gurton s Needle. Hodge and Selima, Jeffry and Dinah refused to be left out; but there are less familiar examples, too: the cat which voluntarily shared the Earl of Southampton s captivity in the Tower; the kitten in whose defence John Keats had a stand up fight with a brutal butcher-boy of Hampstead; the delinquent who at dead of night gnawed the strings of her master s lute. Graymalkin, the witches familiar, comes into the picture; and we catch fascinating glimpses of two furry sympathizers licking the tears from Florence Nightingale s cheeks, and of Cardinal Richelieu solemnly adding something on behalf of a cat and her kittens to the modest pension assigned by His Eminence to Mademoiselle Marie de Gournay, Montaigne s polished female friend. Dorothy M. Stuart is better known for her elegant and polished biographies, but in this short book we see a lighter side of her pen in an appreciation of feline company.
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My spirit animal 📚🐱📚

GingerAntics This cat is living the life!!! 4y
Bookwomble @Milara Spirit Cat can read 👻😸 4y
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1. Cats
2. Dragons
3. Spiders 🕷 They are beautiful & can be beneficial, but they freak me out. They stay outside, they stay alive.
4. My patronus is the Nebelung Cat.
5. In case you haven‘t guessed, I‘d be a cat.
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wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 😀 6y
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