{"id":289,"date":"2007-09-29T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/29\/shaggy-muses-maureen-adams\/"},"modified":"2007-09-29T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T15:09:53","slug":"shaggy-muses-maureen-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Shaggy Muses ~ Maureen Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/shaggy_muses.jpg\" title=\"shaggy_muses.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/shaggy_muses.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"shaggy_muses.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>&#8220;In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Bront\u00eb, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer\u2019s equally fierce spirit. We enter the creative sanctum of Emily Dickinson, which she shared only with Carlo, the gentle, giant Newfoundland who soothed her emotional terrors. We mingle with Edith Wharton, whose ever-faithful Pekes warmed her lonely heart during her restless travels among Europe and America\u2019s social and intellectual elite. We are privileged guests in the fragile universe of Virginia Woolf, who depended for emotional support and sanity not only on her human loved ones but also on her dogs, especially Pinka\u2013a gift from her lover, Vita Sackville-West\u2013a black Cocker Spaniel who became a strong, bright thread in the fabric of Virginia and Leonard Woolf\u2019s life together.<\/p>\n<p>Based on diaries, letters, and other contemporary accounts\u2013and featuring many illustrations of the writers and their dogs\u2013these five miniature biographies allow us unparalleled intimacy with women of genius in their hours of domestic ease and inner vulnerability. Shaggy Muses also enchants us with a pack of new friends: Flush, Keeper, Carlo, Foxy, Linky, Grizzle, Pinka, and all the other devoted canines who loved and served these great writers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read this one &#8211; yet &#8211; but being a dog lover, it looks fascinating. I had no idea all of these literate women had pups who kept them company and inspired their work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Bront\u00eb, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer\u2019s equally fierce spirit. We enter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-4F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}