Little Monstrosities
Hannah Rose Woods: Victorian Dogdom, 16 March 2023
Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made the Modern Dog
by Michael Worboys.
Manchester, 312 pp., £20, February,978 1 5261 6772 9 Show More
by Michael Worboys.
Manchester, 312 pp., £20, February,
“... had bred 2123 dogs and owned 2696.They are often like this, the ‘Doggy People’ who feature in Michael Worboys’s study of twenty ‘eminent and not so eminent Victorians who were the modern dog’s makers’: muscular, energetic, eccentric, polymathic. Kathleen Pelham-Clinton, the Duchess of Newcastle, who imported the borzoi breed from Russia into ... ”