From elaborate Victorian cat funerals to a Regency era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon, Mimi Matthews shares some of the quirkiest--and most poignant--Animal Tales of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The four-legged friends of Lord Byron, Emily Bronte, and Prince Albert also make an appearance.
Meet Fortune, the Pug who bit Napoleon on his wedding night, and Looty, the Pekingese sleeve dog who was presented to Queen Victoria after the 1860 sacking of the Summer Palace in Peking.
From elaborate Victorian cat funerals to a Regency era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon, Mimi Matthews shares some of the quirkiest--and most poignant--Animal Tales of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries