{"product_id":"shaggy-muses-the-dogs-who-inspired-virginia-woolf-emily-dickinson-elizabeth-barrett-browning-edith-wharton-and-emily-bronte-9780226005362","title":"Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maureen Adams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You'll call this sentimental--perhaps--but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,\" Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. In this charming and engaging book, Maureen Adams celebrates this private, playful side telling readers about the relationships between five remarkable women writers and their dogs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShaggy Muses\u003c\/i\u003e, Adams explores the work and lives of these authors through the various roles played by their most devoted companions. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was rescued from a life of passivity and illness by Flush, a lively, possessive (and frequently dog-napped!) golden Cocker Spaniel. Emily Brontë's fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer's equally fierce spirit. Emily Dickinson found companionship with Carlo, the gentle, giant Newfoundland who soothed her emotional terrors. A troop of ever-faithful Pekingese warmed Edith Wharton's lonely heart during her restless travels among Europe and America's social and intellectual elite. And Virginia Woolf developed a deep attachment to Pinka, a black Cocker Spaniel who was both gift from her lover, Vita Sackville-West, and a link to her husband Leonard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on diaries, letters, and other contemporary accounts--and featuring many illustrations of the writers and their dogs--these five miniature biographies allow unparalleled intimacy with women of genius in their hours of domestic ease and inner vulnerability. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579667497111,"sku":"9780226005362","price":1986.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226005362.webp?v=1774910049","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shaggy-muses-the-dogs-who-inspired-virginia-woolf-emily-dickinson-elizabeth-barrett-browning-edith-wharton-and-emily-bronte-9780226005362","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}