ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND FLUSH
I am especially indebted to Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Life and Loves of a Poet (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988); Philip Kelley, ed. The Brownings' Correspondence, vols. 1–15 (Waco, Tex: Wedgestone Press, 1984–2005).
BACKGROUND TEXTS
Garrett, Martin, ed. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Howell, Philip. “Flush and the Banditti: Dog-stealing in Victorian London.” In Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations, edited by Chris Philo and Chris Wilbert, pp. 35–55. London: Routledge, 2000.
Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Phelan, Joseph. “Ethnology and Biography: The Case of the Brownings.” Biography 26 (Spring 2003): pp. 261–278.
WORKS AND LETTERS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
BC Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson, eds., vols. 5–8; Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis, eds., vols. 9–14. The Brownings' Correspondence. Waco, Tex.: Wedgestone Press, 1984–87.
L Scott Lewis, ed. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella. Vols. 1 and 2. Waco, Tex.: Wedgestone Press, 2002.
LK Frederick G. Kenyon, ed. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett. New York: Macmillan, 1899.
LM Betty Miller, ed. Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford. London: John Murray, 1954.
P Elizabeth Barrett Browning.The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Edited by Horace E. Scudder. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books, 1993.
7 “crowded with”: BC, vol. 10, p.300.
7 “pale spiritual”: In Garrett, p. 7.
8 “Literature”: In Forster, p. 27.
10 “We advise”: Ibid., p. 76.
10 “Very pretty”: Ibid., p. 82.
11 “a genuine”: Ibid., p. 89.
11 “such pretty”: Ibid., p. 95.
12 “pettish”: Ibid., p. 99.
12 “For three”: In Markus, p. 23.
13 “It is a wonder”: In Forster, p. 100.
13 “bound, more”: Ibid.
13 “Why there”: LM, p. 68.
14 “affectionate feeling”: LM, p. 70.
14 “But I shall”: Ibid.
14 “How I thank”: BC, vol. 5, p. 10.
14 “Such a quiet”: Ibid., p. 20.
14 “He is much”: Ibid., p. 104.
14 “He dances”: Ibid.
15 “How he makes”: Ibid., p. 106.
15 “The first”: LM, p. 162.
15 “with his silky”: BC, vol. 7, p. 293.
15 “little bantam”: LM, p. 183.
16 “In every”: BC, vol. 5, p. 105.
16 “And when”: Ibid., p. 10.
16 “joyaunce”: Ibid., p. 236.
16 “I have”: Ibid., p. 44.
16 “I have a”: Ibid., p. 30.
17 “After what”: In Markus, p. 83.
17 “He & I”: BC, vol. 9, p. 157.
17 “When I was”: LM, p. 139.
17 “His glittering”: LM, p. 86.
17 “And when”: LM, p. 87.
18 “I was in despair”: Ibid.
18 “Everybody likes”: LM, p. 72.
19 “Now, I may”: In Forster, p. 126.
19 “Poor Flushie”: BC, vol. 8, p. 315.
19 “Here is”: BC, vol. 9, p. 79.
19 “It is amusing”: BC, vol. 8, p. 64.
20 “My brothers”: Ibid.
20 “My castle-building”: In Forster, p. 109.
20 “where the silence”: BC, vol. 6, p. 335.
20 “So profound”: Ibid., p. 7.
20 “Flush lies”: BC, vol. 7, p. 270.
20 “two dark”: In Forster, p. 151.
21 “[It] shows”: BC, vol. 8, p. 289.
21 “feeble”: In Forster, p. 113.
21 “And yet”: P, pp. 436–37.
21 “I tell”: P, p. 99.
21 “When some”: Ibid.
22 “He can't bear”: BC, vol. 6, p. 15.
22 “shivering with”: BC, vol. 12, no. 2,271.
22 “Through the”: BC, vol. 6, p. 25.
22 “For Flush”: BC, vol. 12, no. 2,271.
22 “Why what is”: BC, vol. 9, p. 272.
23 “Think of ”: BC, vol. 8, p. 45.
23 “the dreadful”: In Markus, p. 33.
24 “A cough”: BC, vol. 8, p. 112.
24 “in his eternal”: BC, vol. 5, p. 338.
24 “It is strange”: Ibid.
24 “obvious inconvenience”: BC, vol. 10, no. 1,974.
24 “And although”: LM, p. 211.
25 “Think of my”: BC, vol. 6, p. 45.
26 “the prince”: LM, p. 162.
26 “After an”: LM, p. 129.
26 “There never”: LM, p. 162.
26 dog stealing in London: See Howell.
26 “It is not dogs”: LM, p. 200.
27 “My despair”: In Forster, p. 118.
27 “It was excusable”: BC, vol. 7, p. 355.
27 “Did I”: Ibid., p. 357.
28 “I am sure”: LM, p. 336.
28 “Dear Flushie”: BC, vol. 9, no, 1,791.
28 “drenched with”: BC, vol. 9, no. 1,743.
28 “low and”: Ibid.
28 “I [was]”: BC, vol. 11, no. 2,080.
29 “You see”: P, p. 196.
30 “Leap!”: P, p. 163.
30 “Leave out Flush”: BC, vol. 8, p. 84.
31 “You asked”: Ibid., p. 29.
31 “You have”: Ibid., p. 313.
31 “I thought”: BC, vol. 7, p. 273.
33 “Ba's poet”: In Forster, p. 151.
33 “I shall”: BC, vol. 11, no. 2,061.
33 “Like Flush”: BC, vol. 12, no. 2,274.
33 “I must”: BC, vol. 13, no. 2,472.
34 “So, when”: BC, vol. 12, no. 2,247.
34 “The day”: BC, vol. 11, no. 2,006.
34 “with Flush's”: BC, vol. 12, no. 2,228.
34 “I slapped”: BC, vol. 13, no. 2,474.
34 “Oh, poor”: Ibid., no. 2,080.
35 “dogs who are”: Ibid., no. 2,502.
35 “transient”: Ibid.
35 “Therefore I”: Ibid., no. 2,424.
35 “Think of”: Ibid., no. 2,552.
35 Mr. Barrett's objections to his children's marrying: See Markus and Phelan.
36 “But you”: BC, vol. 13, no. 2,554.
36 “fenced”: BC, vol. 11, no. 2,080.
36 “Here is”: BC, vol. 13, no. 2,574.
37 “Poor Flush”: Ibid., no. 2,575.
37 “You think”: Ibid., no. 2,578.
37 “I ought to”: Ibid., no. 2,579.
37 “I am”: Ibid., no. 2,582.
38 “A sick”: P, pp. 298–99.
39 “Against you”: LM, p. 274.
39 “exhausted”: In Forster, p. 186.
39 “boiling”: BC, vol. 14, no. 2,624.
39 “Flush proved”: Ibid.
40 “sit through”: In Forster, p. 188.
40 “death warrant”: Ibid., p. 189.
40 “hard and unsparing”: Ibid.
41 “a mere palace”: From “The Browning Society: Casa Guidi,” http://www.browningsociety.org /casaguidi.shtml (accessed May 20, 2006).
41 “My Flush”: LK, p. 357.
41 “Flush & I”: BC, vol. 14, no. 2,680.
41 “I have Flush”: Ibid., no. 2,648.
42 “very fond”: Ibid., no. 2,703.
42 “to the Casine”: L, no. 24.
42 “sighing”: BC, vol. 14, no. 2,701.
42 “quite disgraceful”: Ibid.
42 “For a whole”: LK, p. 402.
43 “The affection”: LM, p. 287.
43 “I have never”: LM, pp. 371–72.
43 “I wonder”: L, no. 41.
44 “He calls me”: BC, vol. 14, no. 2,678.
44 “an old dog”: From “How It Strikes a Contemporary,” http://people.a2000.nl/avanarum /Burbank_notes/Contemporary_ RB.htm (accessed Nov. 10, 2001).
44 “By the time”: In Garrett, p. 63.
44 “a beautiful”: Ibid., p. 67.
44 “I recollect”: Ibid.
45 “Another thing”: L, no. 11.
45 “He & I”: BC, vol. 9, p. 157.
EMILY BRONTË AND KEEPER
I am especially indebted to Juliet Barker, The Brontës (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), Juliet Barker, The Brontës: A Life in Letters (Wood-stock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1998); Edward Chitham, A Life of Emily Brontë (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1987); Stevie Davies, Emily Brontë: Heretic (London: Women's Press, 1994); Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (London: Penguin, 1987. First published 1857); Lucasta Miller, The Brontë Myth (New York: Knopf, 2003).
BACKGROUND TEXTS
Alexander, Christine, and Jane Sell-ars. The Art of the Brontës. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Ascione, Frank, and Philip Arkow, eds. Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles of Compassion for Prevention and Intervention. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1999.
Dale-Green, Patricia. Dog. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966.
Evans, R., and Gareth Lloyd. The Scribner Companion to the Brontës. New York: Scribner's, 1982.
Gérin, Winifred. Emily Brontë. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-keeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Nelson, Jane. “Inside Wuthering Heights.” In Country Life CLXXV, No. 4524 (May 3, 1984): pp. 1,238–1,239.
Ratchford, Fannie. The Brontës' Web of Childhood. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.
Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
———. “The Emergence of Modern Pet-Keeping” In Animals and People Sharing the World, edited by Andrew Rowan, 13–31. Hanover N.H.: University Press of New England for Tufts University, 1988.
Serpell, James. “From Paragon to Pariah: Some Reflections on Human Attitudes to Dogs.” In The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour, and Interactions with People, edited by James Serpell, 245–56. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Shorter, Clement. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1896.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Dominance & Affection: The Making of Pets. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984.
Wise, Thomas. The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence. Vols. 1–4 Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1980.
Wyett, Jodi. “The Lap of Luxury: Lapdogs, Literature, and Social Meaning in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century.” Literature Interpretation Theory 10, no. 4 (2000): pp. 273–301.
LETTERS AND WORKS BY EMILY AND CHARLOTTE BRONTË
BL Juliet Barker. The Brontës: A Life in Letters. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1998.
E Emily Brontë. Five Essays.Translated by L. W. Nagel. Fol-craft, Pa.: Folcraft Library Editions, 1974.
L Margaret Smith, ed. The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1995.
P C. W. Hatfield, ed. The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. First published 1941.
S Charlotte Brontë. Shirley. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford World's Classics, 1998. First published 1849.
WH Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights.London: Penguin, 1995. First published 1847.
54 “The linnet”: In Davies, p. 180.
54 “Reads little”: In Chitham, p. 37.
55 “a darling”: BL, p. 9.
55 “Down, down”: In Chitham, p. 49.
56 “the eyes”: Ibid., p. 26.
56 “She never”: In Gaskell, p. 268.
56 “We wove”: In Ratchford, title page.
57 “High waving”: P, p. 31.
58 “Cold in the”: P, p. 222.
58 “No coward”: P, p. 243.
58 “Emily Brontë”: In Chitham, p. 76.
59 “making them”: Ibid., p. 78.
59 “stooped down”: Ibid., p. 81.
59 “Grasper—from”: In Alexander, pp. 375–76.
59 “And hungry”: In Ratchford, p. 94.
61 “Am [I]”: In Chitham, p. 88.
61 “Her health”: Ibid., p. 89.
61 “Cold clear”: In Ratchford, p. 135.
62 “hard labour”: In Barker (1994), p. 294.
62 “For the moors”: P, p. 92.
63 “savage brute”: In Evans, p. 115.
64 “Vaste, huge”: In Dale-Green, p. 132.
64 “one who”: Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 665.
64 “A private”: BL, p. 310.
64 “We … all”: BL, p. 96.
65 “a conglomerate”: L, p. 332.
65 “a smart battle”: WH, p. 196.
65 “limping, and”: WH, p. 195.
66 “till one or”: Gaskell, p. 268.
66 “a devouring”: L, p. 332.
66 “rather large”: S, pp. 6–7.
66 “[She] must”: Gaskell, p. 507.
66 “Keeper and”: In Evans, p. 115.
66 “fierce, wild”: Gaskell, p. 268.
68 “Riches I”: P, p. 163.
68 “Sometimes”: In Shorter, p. 179.
68 “huge purple”: WH, p. 49.
69 “Down-stairs came”: Gaskell, p. 269.
69 dogs as scapegoats: See Serpell.
70 “She had not”: S, p. 358.
70 “kneeling on”: In Gérin, p. 156.
71 “Poor old”: In Shorter, p. 178.
71 “The tawny”: S, p. 386.
71 “I am”: BL, p. 95.
73 “Tell me”: BL, p. 111.
73 “hardly ever”: In Barker (1994), p. 393.
73 “I simply”: BL, p. 106.
73 “worked like”: In Barker (1994), p. 384.
73 “She should”: In Gaskell, p. 230.
73 “Yesterday”: E, pp. 164–65.
74 description of notebooks: See Irene Taylor, “Foreword,” in P. 75 “I have”: BL, p. 132.
75 “who I”: BL, p. 131.
75 “I am quite”: Ibid.
76 “If you”: L, p. 37.
76 “I long”: In Ratchford, p. 149.
76 “Tabby in”: L, p. 53.
76 “We were”: BL, p. 131.
76 “The Gondals are”: BL, p. 133.
76 “The Gondals still”: BL, p. 131.
78 “Keeper and”: In Shorter, p. 178.
78 sketches and watercolor of Flossy: See Alexander, pp. 388–89.
79 “that infamous little”: L, p. 374.
79 “Emily was”: L, p. 432.
79 “for if”: Ibid 80 “peculiar music”: WH, p. xxvii.
80 “an inspiration”: In Barker (1994), p. 497.
80 “He comes”: P, pp. 238–39.
81 “Whether”: WH, p. xxxvi.
82 “hopeless being”: In Chitham, p. 232.
82 “Well some”: P, p. 132.
83 “regularity paper”: In Barker (1994), p. 358.
83 “a huge, liver-coloured”: WH, p. 5.
83 “She's not”: WH, p. 6.
84 “the delicate”: E, p. 10. For the connection between dominance and pets, see Tuan.
84 “petted him up”: WH, p. 38.
84 “That was”: WH, p. 48.
85 “While her”: WH, p. 52.
85 “a vicious cur”: WH, p. 57.
85 “The first thing”: WH, p. 149.
85 animal abuse and domestic violence: See Ascione.
86 “exactly as”: WH, p. 270.
86 “that pitiful”: WH, p. 149.
86 “yelped wild”: WH, p. 181.
86 “who was”: Ibid.
87 For the image of the hanged dog, see Davies, pp. 117–18.
87 lapdogs in England: See Wyett.
87 “for a crime”: Kete, p. 41.
88 “Nature is”: In Davies, p. 108.
88 “I'm tired”: WH, p. 160.
88 “I lingered”: WH, p. 334.
88–89 “storm-heated”: WH, p. xxxv.
90 “How a”: In Davies, pp. 89–90.
90 “too odiously”: In Miller, p. 208.
90 “puzzling”: Ibid., p. 209.
90 “Permit me”: Ibid., p. 192.
90 “of a broken”: In Chitham, p. 231.
90 “Never in all”: WH, p. xxxi.
91 “lay at the”: In Barker (1994), p. 576.
92 “a hard, short”: Ibid.
92 “Emily's large”: BL, p. 240.
92 “Keeper walked”: Gaskell, p. 269.
92 “to the day”: In Wise, vol. 4, p. 87.
92 “superannuated”: Ibid., vol. 3, p. 168.
92 “with his”: In Shorter, p. 440.
92 “The blind”: Ibid., p. 441.
92 “I shall never”: In Wise, vol. 4, p. 91.
92 “I got home”: BL, p. 239.
93 “The ecstasy”: Ibid.
93 “some caress”: BL, p. 240.
93 “Poor old”: BL, p. 339.
EMILY DICKINSON AND CARLO
I am especially indebted to Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001); Richard Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974); and Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Emily Dickinson (New York: Knopf, 1986).
Bauer, Mattias. “The Language of Dogs: Mythos and Logos in Emily Dickinson.” Connotations 5, nos. 2–3 (1995–96): pp. 208–27.
Brose, Nancy, Juliana Dupre, Wendy Kohler, and Jean Mudge. Emily Dickinson: Profile of the Poet as Cook. Amherst, Mass.: Newell Printing, 1976.
Burkert, Nancy, and Jane Langton. Acts of Light: Emily Dickinson. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980.
Farr, Judith, with Louise Carter. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Figley, Mary Rhodes “ ‘Brown Kisses’ and ‘Shaggy Feet’: How Carlo Illuminates Dickinson for Children” The Emily Dickinson Journal 14, no. 2 (2005): pp. 120–127.
Fuss, Diana. The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them. New York: Rout-ledge, 2004.
Garber, Marjorie. Dog Love. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Hart, Ellen Louise, and Martha Nell Smith. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Ash-field, Mass.: Paris Press, 1998.
Hausman, G., and L. Hausman. The Mythology of Dogs: Canine Legend and Lore Through the Ages. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Edited by Howard N. Meyer. New York: Perseus Press, 2000.
Howey, M. O. The Cult of the Dog.Essex, U.K.: C. W. Daniel Co., 1972.
Jones, Ruth Owen. “Neighbor—and friend—and Bridegroom—: William Smith Clark as Emily Dickinson's Master Figure.” The Emily Dickinson Journal 11, no. 2 (2002): pp. 48–85.
Lerman, Rhoda. In the Company of Newfies: A Shared Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Leyda, Jay. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1960.
Matthews, Pamela. “Talking of Hallowed Things: The Importance of Silence in Emily Dickinson's Poetry.” Dickinson Studies 47 (1983): pp. 14–21.
Pratt, Freda, and Carol Cooper. A Friend in Deed. Cornwall, U.K.: R. Booth Bookbinders, 1993.
Scharnhorst, Gary. “A Glimpse of Dickinson at Work.” American Literature 57, no. 5 (Oct. 1985): pp. 483–85.
Stetson, J., ed. This Is the Newfoundland: Official Breed Book of the Newfoundland Club of America. Orange, Conn.: Practical Science Publishing, 1956.
LETTERS AND POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
B Millicent Todd Bingham. Emily Dickinson's Home: Letters of Edward Dickinson and His Family. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955.
L Emily Dickinson. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958.
P Emily Dickinson. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas Johnson. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1960. First published 1890.
99 “Amherst is alive”: L, no. 29.
99 “Rare hours”: In Leyda, vol. 1, p. 367.
101 “Belle of”: Title of play by William Luce.
101 “Tell all the Truth”: P, no. 1,129.
101 “I never had”: L, no. 342b. For Emily's first three years, see Wolff, pp. 36–65.
102 “A loss of ”: P, no. 959.
102 “My mother does”: L, no. 261.
103 “I called”: In Wolff, p. 109.
103 Mr. Dickinson's career: See Fuss, p. 53.
103 “I think”: L, no. 114.
103 “It is so weird”: In Sewall, p. 145.
104 “I would like”: L, p. 404.
104 “a very bright”: In Sewall, p. 342.
104 “I am really”: L, no. 18.
105 “I mailed”: L, no. 26.
105 “Austin arrived”: L, no. 23.
106 “While contributing”: B, p. 413.
106 “Father was”: Ibid.
106 “Father … buys”: L, no. 261.
106 “Father and”: L, no. 36.
106 “Vinnie away”: L, no. 30.
107 “You have seen”: L, no. 93.
107 “I wish”: L, no. 115.
108 Newfoundlands: See Pratt, Stetson.
108 “Near this spot”: In Benita Eisler, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame (New York: Vintage Books, 2108), p. 161.
109 “I am the noble”: In Hausman, p. 195.
109 “We don't”: L, no. 65.
109 “Mother has”: B, p. 238.
109 “I am Judith”: L, no. 34.
110 “Miss Dickinson”: In Leyda, vol. 1, p. 358.
110 “while the huge”: Ibid., p. 21.
110 “Her companion”: Ibid.
110 “small, like”: L, no. 268.
110 “My Hair”: L, no. 271.
110 “dog with ringlets”: L, no. 218.
110 “Father and”: L, no. 266.
110 –111 “Vinnie had”: L, no. 685.
111 “Evenings get”: L, no. 194.
111 “Mother thinks”: L, no. 285.
112 “When much”: L, no. 271.
112 herbarium: See Habegger, pp. 154–61.
113 “good friends”: In Hart, p. 3.
113 “I asked”: Ibid., p. 55.
113 “I ran”: Ibid., p. 39.
114 “You need not fear”: L, no. 173.
114 “I rise”: L, no. 172.
114 “Carriages flew”: L, no. 127.
115 “I cannot”: L, no. 182.
115 “Mother has”: Ibid.
115 “Mother lies”: Ibid.
115 “I am out”: Ibid. 115 remodeling of the Homestead: See Fuss, pp. 9–56.
116 the conservatory: See Farr, pp. 148–51.
116 her bedroom: See Fuss, pp. 56–66.
117 “One sister”: P, no. 14.
117 “She had”: In Leyda, vol. 1, p. 338.
117 “I may”: Ibid.
117 “I think”: P, no. 593.
118 “[She] wrote”: In Scharnhorst, p. 485.
118 “Till every”: P, no. 500.
119 interpretation: See Bauer, pp. 213–16.
119 “No squirrel”: P, no. 589.
120 “only a happen”: In Sewall, p. 153.
120 “I don't go”: L, no. 166.
120 “He is dumb”: L, no. 271.
120 increased robberies: Personal communication, Ruth Owen Jones.
120 “The nights turned”: L, no. 281.
120 “I felt”: P, no. 937.
121 “Could I”: P, no. 220.
121 “I noticed”: In Habegger, p. 400.
122 “Put one hand”: In Leyda, vol. 1, p. 62.
123 the “Queen Recluse”: In Habegger, p. 447.
123 “Please have”: L, no. 213.
123 “Nothing has”: L, no. 285.
123 “I tell you”: L, no. 272.
123 “Master. If you”: L, no. 233.
123 “Could you forget”: Ibid.
124 “What shall I do”: P, no. 186.
125 “I cannot”: L, no. 212.
125 “This is the Hour”: P, no. 341.
126 plants and Bowles: Farr, pp. 44–49.
126 “I have”: In Hart, p. 101.
127 “A little”: P, no. 1,185.
127 “The Frogs”: L, no. 262.
127 “I had a terror”: L, no. 261.
127 number of poems: Habegger, p. 405.
127 “When I try”: L, no. 271.
127 “If I read a book”: In Sewall, p. 566.
127 “Dare you”: P, no. 365.
128 “I started Early”: P, no. 520.
129 “I think Carlo”: L, no. 271.
129 “You ask”: L, no. 261.
129 “When I am”: In Matthews, p. 15.
129 “They talk of”: L, no. 271.
129 “Of ‘shunning’”: Ibid.
130 “The Soul selects”: P, no. 303.
130 “I smile”: L, no. 265.
130 “A solemn thing”: P, no. 271.
130 “Title divine”: P, no. 1,072.
131 “I found”: L, no. 280.
131 “A step like”: L, no. 342a.
131 “I never was”: In Habegger, p. 524.
132 “Carlo did not”: L, no. 290.
132 “Carlo died”: L, no. 314.
132 “event, vast”: Higginson, p. 554.
132 “Further in Summer”: P, no. 1,068.
133 furrow: Personal communication, Ellen Fogelman.
133 “I bring”: In Sewall, p. 582.
133 cricket corpse: Farr, p. 26.
133 “The day”: In Habegger, p. 352.
133 “ 'Twas later”: P, no. 1,276.
134 “insect sounds”: In Wolff, p. 309.
134 “Whom my dog”: L, no. 316.
134 “Except the”: P, no. 1,067.
134 Ned's picture: Hart, p. 142.
135 “It is hard”: In Garber, p. 245.
135 “You must”: Ibid.
135 “Thank you”: L, no. 319.
135 “Time is a Test”: Ibid.
135 “Nature, seems it”: Ibid.
135 “I explore”: Ibid.
135 “We were”: L, no. 792.
136 “There is”: In Sewall, p. 566.
136 “Called back”: L, no. 1,046.
136 “No coward soul”: Emily Brontë, in The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë, edited by C.W. Hatfield (Columbia University Press, 1941, 1995), p. 243.
136 “This Consciousness”: P, no. 822.
137 “Gracie, do you”: In Leyda, vol. 1, p. 21.
EDITH WHARTON AND FOXY, LINKY, AND THE DOGS IN BETWEEN
I am especially indebted to Shari Benstock, No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton (New York: Scribner's, 1994); Gloria C. Erlich, The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992); and Cynthia Griffin Wolff, A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995).
BACKGROUND TEXTS
Auchincloss, Louis. Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
Bell, Millicent. Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Story of Their Friendship. New York: George Braziller, 1965.
Boit, Louise. “Henry James as Landlord.” Atlantic Monthly 178, no. 2 (Aug. 1946): pp. 118–21.
Dwight, Eleanor. Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life. New York: Abrams, 1994.
Funston, Judith E. “Macaws and Pekingese: Vivienne de Watteville and Edith Wharton.” Edith Wharton Review 7, no. 1 (1990): pp. 13–14.
Godden, Rumer. The Butterfly Lions: The Pekingese in History, Legend and Art. London: William Clowes & Sons, 1977.
Jacobsen, Janet Allen. “Pekingese Appreciation.” Unpublished MS.
Lewis, R. W. B. Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Lubbock, Percy. Portrait of Edith Wharton. London: Jonathan Cape, 1947.
Mainwaring, Marion. Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2001.
Powers, Lyall H., ed. Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters, 1900– 1915. New York: Scribner's, 1990.
Price, Alan. The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Price, Kenneth M., and Phyllis McBride. “ ‘The Life Apart’: Text and Contexts of Edith Wharton's Love Diary.” American Literature 66, no. 4 (Dec. 1994): pp. 663–88.
Ramsden, George. Edith Wharton's Library. Yorkshire, U.K: Stone Trough Books, 1999.
Rieder, William. A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life of Walter and Matilda Gay. New York: Abrams, 2000.
Tyler, William Royall, “Personal Memories of Edith Wharton,” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 85 [no number] (1973): pp. 91–104.
Wimhurst, C.G.E. The Book of Toy Dogs. London: Frederick Muller, Ltd., 1965.
Wright, Sarah Bird. Edith Wharton, A to Z. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
WORKS AND LETTERS BY EDITH WHARTON
BG Edith Wharton. A Backward Glance: An Autobiography. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touch-stone Edition, 1998. First published 1938.
CSS Edith Wharton. The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton. Vols. 1 and 2. Edited by R.W.B. Lewis. New York: Scribner's, 1968.
FF Edith Wharton. Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport. New York: Scribner's, 1919.
L Edith Wharton. The Letters of Edith Wharton. Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis. London: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
L&I Edith Wharton. “Life and I.” InEdith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings, edited by Cynthia Griffin Wolff. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1990.
MFF Edith Wharton. A Motor-Flight through France. New York: Charles Scribner, 1908.
LITERARY ARCHIVES
BL Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
LL Lilly Library, William Royall Tyler Collection, University of Indiana.
UT Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
ABBREVIATIONS FOR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND REMINISCENCES
ET Elisina Tyler.
EW Emelyn Washburn.
HP Hayford Peirce.
MB Mary Berenson.
MC Margaret Chanler.
MF Morton Fullerton.
RN Robert Norton.
SN Sara Norton.
TW Teddy Wharton.
WT William Tyler.
143 “snowy headed”: BG, p. 3.
145 “a new life”: BG, p. 4.
145 “How I”: Ibid.
145 “The owning”: Ibid.
146 “tall splendid”: BG, p. 26.
147 “For almost”: BG, p. 41.
148 “this illness”: L&I, p. 1,078.
149 “a dark”: L&I, p. 1,080.
149 “His absence”: BG, p. 41.
149 “My parents”: Ibid.
150 “the glories”: BG, p. 44.
150 “my mind”: BG, p. 48.
151 “I was a ‘young’”: L&I, p. 1,080.
151 “Oh, how”: BG, p. 73.
152 “The objective world”: L&I, p. 1,078.
152 “Everybody had”: L&I, p. 1,081.
152 “I always”: L&I, p. 1,082.
152 “I passed”: Ibid.
153 “This lasted”: Ibid.
153 “folly”: L&I, p. 1,090.
153 “When I”: BG, p. 77.
154 “agony of”: BG, p. 78.
154 “pink blur”: L&I, p. 1,093.
154 “complete”: BG, p. 169.
154 “I was”: BG, p. 77.
155 “My keenest”: L&I, p. 1,095.
155 “I imagine”: BG, p. 39.
155 “I am”: BG, p. 88.
156 “small dinners”: BG, p. 78.
156 “The only”: In Benstock, p. 46.
158 “with dread”: L&I, p. 1,087.
158 “I'm afraid”: Ibid.
158 “Mrs. George”: In Auchincloss, p. 46.
159 history of Chihuahuas: See Wimhurst, pp. 64–65.
160 “little dog”: BG, p. 100.
161 “Puss wanted”: In Auchincloss, p. 48.
161 “As long”: BG, p. 109.
161 “lump into”: In Wright, p. 24.
162 “I have”: CSS, p. 14.
162 “one long”: In Benstock, p. 72.
163 “I think”: In Wolff, p. 86.
163 “For twelve”: L, pp. 139–40.
164 “Don't pass”: In Wright, p. 134.
164 “Poor little”: EW–SN, Feb. 4, 1902, BL.
165 description of Pet Cemetery: Scott Marshall, unpublished notes, ca. 1988.
165 “Miza looks”: EW–SN, June 5, 1903, BL.
165 “Me, too”: In Lewis, p. 160.
166 “family [to be]”: BG, p. 316.
166 “Cold in the”: BG, p. 185.
166 “deranging and”: In Benstock, p. 197.
166 “the best &”: In Boit, p. 119.
167 “There must”: RN, Wharton Reminiscences, BL, p. 35.
167 “perfect but”: In Lubbock, p. 46.
167 “And if”: In Benstock, p. 290.
167 “great grief”: Ibid., p. 167.
167 “the pendulum”: In Dwight, p. 141.
167 “The little”: EW–SN, Nov. 29, 1903, BL.
168 “Mitou sends”: L, p. 81.
168 “We hope”: L, pp. 76–77.
168 “to stand”: In Lewis, p. 152.
169 “a stupid creature”: EW–SN, Apr. 28, 1905, BL.
169 “like a baby”: Ibid.
169 “The slightest”: Ibid.
169 “beyond words”: L, p. 89.
169 “Our experiment”: TW–SN, Feb. 26, 1907, BL.
169 “My first”: L, p. 85.
170 “restored by”: In Lewis, p. 102.
170 “Teddy arrived”: EW–SN, Aug. 15, 1902, BL.
170 “I am no”: In Wright, p. 93.
170 “Teddy Wharton”: In Benstock, p. 133.
171 “natural right”: EW–SN, Jan. 10, 1906, BL.
171 “Little Miza's”: Diary, Jan. 5, 1906, BL.
171 “We had”: EW–SN, Jan. 10, 1906, BL.
171 “Beautiful day”: Diary, Jan. 6, 1906, BL.
171 “My old”: TW–SN, Feb. 26, 1907, BL.
171 “Yet forgive”: In Powers, pp. 73–74.
172 “my poor”: L, p. 155.
172 “a self ”: L, p. 138.
172 “a dashing”: In Erlich, p. 87.
172 “mysterious”: In Benstock, p. 170.
173 “The moment”: L, p. 129.
173 “the old”: In K. Price, p. 671.
173 “You sent”: Ibid., 670.
174 “The way”: L, p. 135.
174 “He was”: Diary, March 3, 1908, LL.
174 “We were”: Ibid., April 18, 1908, LL.
174 “I have”: In K. Price, p. 680.
174 “She was”: MF–ET, Mar. 30, 1950, LL.
175 “the innermost”: CSS, p. 14.
175 “Does that”: In K. Price, p. 682.
175 “I heard”: Ibid.
175 “He was”: In Rieder, p. 127.
176 “I had”: In Benstock, p. 186.
176 “The violent”: In Bell, p. 172.
176 “I know”: EW–MF, undated postcard, UT.
177 “Poor dear”: In Powers, p. 201.
177 “It is a happy”: L, p. 514.
177 “draw herself”: In A. Price, p. xvi.
177 “a full-rigged”: Ibid. 177–78 description of her clothes: In Benstock, p. 123.
178 “a nervous”: In Rieder, p. 127.
178 “intellectual fencing matches”: Ibid.
178 “I feel”: In Rieder, p. 126.
178 “a good”: ET–HP, Aug. 7, 1927, LL.
179 “The whirling”: In Wolff, pp. 140–41.
179 “Ah … you”: In Lubbock, p. 59.
179 “learned several”: L, p. 307.
179 “I remember”: FF, p. 17.
180 “We had fared”: In A. Price, p. 17.
180 “lassitude and”: EW–ET, June 6, 1919, LL.
180 “What color”: Ibid.
181 “It is so”: EW–ET, Aug. 10, 1918, LL.
181 “You will be”: EW–EW[ash-burn], Mar. 21, 1919, BL.
181 pictures of the Pekes: See LL. 181–82 history of the Pekingese: See Godden.
182 “implying courage”: Jacobsen, n.p.
182 “exasperating stubbornness”: Ibid.
182 “He was”: CSS, vol. 2, p. 284.
182 “She was”: MB, Wharton Reminiscences, BL.
182 “She liked”: MC, Wharton Reminiscences, BL.
182 “It was”: MB, Wharton Reminiscences, BL.
184 “She now”: Lubbock, p. 132.
184 “I had”: BG, p. 369.
184 “Your memory”: In Benstock, p. 360.
184 “as familiarly”: In Lewis, p. 429.
185 “Much as”: MB, Wharton Reminiscences, BL.
185 “damned Pekingese”: In Lubbock, p. 133.
185 “those blessed”: Ibid.
186 “There was”: In Lubbock, p. 133.
186 “the lap-dog”: Ibid., p. 210.
186 “No danger”: Ibid.
186 “the oldest”: Ibid.
186 “he looked”: Ibid.
186 “love and”: In Rieder, p. 126.
187 “two astute and arrogant”: In Funston, p. 13.
187 “I cannot”: BG, pp. 4–5.
187 “had wanted”: L, p. 504.
187 “my old”: L, p. 561.
187 “Since Walter's”: Ibid.
187 “Please tell”: Bettina Tyler to Madame Friderick, Mar. 11, 1937, LL.
187 “Linky and I”: EW–WT, Nov. 13, 1934, LL.
188 “It takes”: EW–WT, Jan. 30, 1935, LL.
188 “How it”: Diary, July 15, 1927, BL.
188 “If I”: Diary, 1924–1934, Inscription inside cover, BL.
189 “the ruling”: In Dwight, p. 282.
190 “I'm an”: In Lewis, p. 514.
190 “lie there”: CSS, vol. 2, p. 890.
190 “Dear little”: Diary, April 11, 1937, BL.
191 “Little Linky”: Diary, April 12, 1937, BL.
191 “Clouding over”: Diary, April 13, 1937, BL.
191 “I don't”: Diary, April 14, 1937, BL.
191 “He'll be”: EW–WT, April 15, 1937, LL.
191 “My little”: Diary, April 15, 1937, BL.
191 “Can't remember”: Diary, April 19, 1937, BL.
191 “I wish”: in Tyler, p. 103.
191 “Still can't”: Diary, April 20, 1937, BL.
191 “Oh, how”: Diary, April 26, 1937, BL.
191 “Very shakey”: Diary, May 9, 1937, BL.
191 “We really”: EW–WT May 16, 1937, LL.
192 “Kept no”: Diary, June 19, 1937 BL.
192 “My little”: In George Ramsden, Edith Wharton's Library (Yorkshire, U.K: Stone Trough Books, 1999) p. 28.
VIRGINIA WOOLF AND GURTH, GRIZZLE, AND PINKA
I am especially indebted to Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972); Katherine Dalsimer, Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001); Louise DeSalvo, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work(New York: Ballantine, 1989); Jane Dunn, A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990); and Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (New York: Knopf, 1997).
BACKGROUND TEXTS
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
Caws, Mary Ann. Virginia Woolf.Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2001.
Coppinger, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger, Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution (New York: Scribner, 2001).
Cottesloe, Gloria. Lost, Stolen or Strayed: The Story of the Battersea Dogs' Home. London: Arthur Barker, Ltd., 1971.
Curtis, Vanessa. Virginia Woolf's Women. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Eberly, David. “Housebroken: The Domesticated Relations of Flush.” In Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts, edited by Beth Rigel and Eileen Barrett Daugherty, pp. 21–29. New York: Pace University Press, 1995.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita: A Biography of Vita Sackville-West. New York: Quill, 1983.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. From the Lighthouse to Monk's House: A Guide to Virginia Woolf's Literary Landscapes. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 2001.
Humm, Maggie. Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska. New York: Morrow, 1985.
Spalding, Frances. Vanessa Bell. New Haven, Conn.: Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
Spater, George, and Ian Parsons. A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Szladits, Lola L. “The Life, Character and Opinions of Flush the Spaniel.” Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): pp. 211–18.
Woolf, Leonard. The Journey Not the Arrival Matters. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1969.
———. Letters of Leonard Woolf.Edited by Frederic Spotts. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
WORKS, DIARIES, AND LETTERS BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
D Anne Oliver Bell, ed. The Diaries of Virginia Woolf. Vols. 1–5. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977–84.
E Andrew McNeillie, ed. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
F Virginia Woolf. Flush: A Biography. Introduction by Margaret Forster. London: Vintage, 2002. First published 1933.
L Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, eds. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Vols. 1–6. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975–80.
M Jeanne Schulkind, ed. Moments of Being. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
PA Mitchell A. Leaska, ed. Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
197 “had run”: In Dalsimer, p. 30.
199 “Can I remember”: Ibid., p. 4.
200 “He is long-haired”: Ibid., p. 33.
200 “terribly Skye-terrier”: E, p. 13.
201 “Then there were”: M, p. 31.
201 “Her death”: M, p. 40.
201 “I remember”: M, p. 93.
202 “Sobbing, sitting”: M, p. 95.
202 “We were all”: M, p. 45.
202 “my ‘first’ breakdown”: In Lee, p. 174.
202 “One felt”: In Dunn, p. 38.
202 “It was like”: M, p. 116.
204 “[Jerry] caused”: PA, p. 26.
204 “A wicked spotted”: PA, p. 31.
204 “It was not”: M, p. 149.
205 “by the contemptible”: E, p. 13.
205 “Then we lost”: PA, p. 108.
205 “One day”: In Dalsimer, p. 55.
205 “The blow”: M, p. 124.
206 “So, kiss your dog”: L, no. 381.
206 “I think with joy”: L, no. 424.
206 “an attractive”: E, p. 13.
206 “I can see”: E, p. 14.
206 “was base”: Ibid.
207 “I wish you”: In Dalsimer, p. 71.
207 “of great sickness”: E, p. 14.
207 “what strange wave”: E, p. 15.
207 “How to go”: In Dunn, p. 80.
207 “His life would have”: D, vol. 3, p. 208.
207 “But one thing”: L, no. 3,197.
208 “unremarkable” except: E, p. 8.
208 “It was better”: E, p. 15.
208 “A cab”: L, no. 10.
209 “Gordon Square”: In Hill-Miller, p. 68.
210 “white & grey”: PA, p. 218.
210 “I took Gurth”: PA, p. 238.
210 “I walked”: PA, p. 243.
210 “The whole battery”: F, p. 28.
211 “Out after lunch”: PA, p. 27.
211 “so much risk”: PA, p. 234.
211 “Oh the torture”: In Lee, p. 111.
211 “Gurth wears”: PA, p. 245.
211 “eye-stalk”: See Coppinger, pp. 100–215.
211 “I took that”: PA, p. 243.
212 “handwriting has”: L, no. 990.
212 “maternal protection”: D, vol. 3, p. 52.
212 “That is all”: In Lee, p. 228.
213 Battersea Lost Dogs Home: See Cottesloe.
213 “It is perhaps”: L, no. 294.
213 “I will send”: L, no. 434.
214 “He is”: In Dunn, p. 176.
214 “born not of rich”: In Lee, p. 51.
214 “Socially”: In Spalding, p. 65.
215 “I've got”: In Dunn, p. 182.
215 “One's personality”: D, vol. 1, p. 70.
215 “As I told”: In Dunn, p. 177.
215 “Apparently”: In Spalding, p. 62.
215 “We might”: In Dunn, p. 192.
215 “private, play”: L, no. 3,025.
216 “trivial and sentimental”: L. Woolf (1969), p. 21.
216 “this blind”: Ibid.
216 “gruff, abrupt”: Bell, p. 175.
217 “unity”: In Spater, p. 68.
217 “I took Max”: D, vol. 1, p. 20.
218 “A Bull dog”: Ibid., p. 28.
218 “a stout, active”: Ibid., p. 59.
218 “Directly he is”: Ibid., p. 60.
218 “his spirit”: Ibid.
218 “He fell”: Ibid.
218 “He is a human”: Ibid.
218 “restless mind”: Ibid., p. 62.
219 “One's right hand”: Ibid.
219 “Her affection”: Bell, p. 175.
219 “It is melancholy”: D, vol. 1, p. 72.
219 “a vision”: Ibid., p. 105.
220 “I don't like”: In Lee, p. 368.
220 “the greatest”: Ibid., p. 369.
220 “Yet I daresay”: D, vol. 1, p. 318.
220 “Grizzle now”: D, vol. 2, p. 182.
220 “I heard”: Ibid., p. 205.
221 “How they”: Ibid., p. 311.
221 “Grizzle pricks”: Ibid., p. 313.
221 “Do I”: D, vol. 3, p. 87.
222 “Thank God”: D, vol. 2, p. 295.
222 “The immense success”: D, vol. 3, p. 31.
222 “But oh the”: D, vol. 2, p. 308.
222 “And the truth” D, vol. 3, p. 62.
223 “Was everybody dining”: In Lee, p. 466.
223 “Not much”: In Glendinning, p. 128.
224 “chairs that”: In Lee, p. 489.
224 “a sort of covey”: D, vol. 3, p. 125.
224 “Please don't”: In Glendinning, p. 149.
224 “The explosion”: Sackville-West, pp. 238–39.
224 “Vita is a dear”: L, no. 160.
225 “If ever”: L, no. 1,607.
225 “Well, my”: L, no. 2,660.
225 “This letter”: Sackville-West, p. 286.
225 “Does Potto”: Sackville-West, p. 313.
225 “If one”: In Lee, p. 485.
226 “Remember your”: L, no. 1,628.
226 “And this will”: Sackville-West, p. 122.
226 “I am scared”: In Lee, p. 497.
226 “ghetto Jews”: L. Woolf (1969), p. 57.
226 “The puppy”: L. Woolf (1989), p. 299.
227 “Can I”: L, no. 1,533.
227 “Your puppy”: L, no. 1,660.
228 “Pinker and I”: Sackville-West, p. 152.
228 “No—I can't”: L, no. 1,690.
228 “So we go on”: D, vol. 3, p. 117.
228 “On 4 December”: Editor's note in D, vol. 3, p. 118.
228 “Had Grizzle”: L. Woolf. Diary, Dec. 4, 1926. Special Collections, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.
229 “Darling, we are”: L, no. 2,048.
229 “Please Vita”: L, no. 1,717.
230 “I had to explain”: Sackville-West, p. 152.
231 “My friendship”: D, vol. 4, p. 287.
232 “Potto is dead”: L, no. 2,411.
232 “Ethel's new”: L, no. 3,206.
232 “At the dead”: L, no. 3,223.
233 “making an entry”: In Trekkie Ritchie, introduction, Flush: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1933), p. viii.
234 “Pinka jumps”: L, no. 2,915.
234 “Dearest it was”: L. Woolf (1989), p. 233.
234 “It was a divine”: L, no. 2,346.
234 “Pinka, who has”: L, no. 2,025.
234 “Beauty shines”: L, no. 2,012.
235 “And Pink”: L, no. 2,189.
235 “Never pretend”: In Dunn, 225.
235 “maternal vices”: L, no. 1,922.
235 “Pinka is snoring”: L, no. 2,858.
235 “Half the”: L, no. 1,688.
235 “Why does”: L, no. 1,794.
235 “It is very”: D, vol. 3, p. 220.
235 “The only”: L, no. 1,805.
236 “I've just”: L, no. 2,217.
236 “Anyhow it is”: In Szladits, p. 216.
236 “I was so”: L, no. 2,628.
236 “I hope to send”: L, no. 2,700.
236 “The dog”: L, no. 2,715.
237 “Four months”: In Ritchie, p. xiii.
237 “I wanted”: L, no. 2,707.
237 “I nibble”: L, no. 2,615.
237 “I shall”: D, vol. 4, p. 181.
237 “I write”: L, no. 2,640.
237 “I am very”: L, no. 2,715.
238 “not so much”: Bell, p. 175.
238 “As he lay”: F, p. 96.
239 “to the surface”: Eberly, p. 80.
239 “One moment”: Ibid., p. 77.
239 “A fat woman”: F, p. 81.
239 “I still”: L, no. 3,678.
240 “Well, Flush lingers”: D, vol. 4, p. 144.
240 “trying to re-write”: Ibid., p. 139.
240 “Well Flush is”: Ibid., p. 144.
240 “I'm so glad”: L, no. 2,808.
240 “This time”: D, vol. 5, p. 100.
240 “poor old”: L, no. 3,025.
241 “Percy was”: D, vol. 5, p. 317.
241 “And the intensity”: Ibid.
241 “This you'll”: L, no. 3,025.
241 “8 years”: D, vol. 5, p. 318.
241 “trance like”: D, vol. 4, p. 246.
241 “fussing & fidgeting”: D, vol. 5, p. 318.
242 “And we”: L, no. 3,026.
242 “too melancholy”: L, no. 3,029.
242 “We've bought”: L, no. 3,039.
242 “She has”: D, vol. 4, p. 328.
242 “She cost £18”: Ibid.
243 “almost surgically”: D, vol. 5. p. 80.
243 “Love for him”: L, no. 3,358.
243 “The passion”: In Dunn, p. 293.
243 “It's rather”: D, vol. 5, p. 343.
244 “And how's”: L, no. 3,373.
244 “a dose of”: L, no. 3,571.
244 “Meanwhile, yes”: no. 3,441.
244 “ ‘My books’”: D, vol. 5, p. 310.
245 “One never”: Ibid.
245 “As I cannot”: Ibid., p. 343.
245 “L's old fine”: Ibid., p. 334.
245 “A psychologist”: Ibid., p. 351.
245 “Very lonely”: Ibid., p. 63.
245 “You must not”: In Dunn, p. 299.
245 “moon[ing] over”: D, vol. 5, p. 161.
246 “She had killed”: Ibid.
246 “If I could”: In Dunn, p. 300.
246 “I don't think”: Ibid.
AFTERWORD
BACKGROUND TEXTS
Beck, Alan, and Aaron Katcher. Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1996.
Coppinger, Raymond, and Lorna Coppinger. Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
Dale-Green, Patricia. Dog. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966.
Leach, Maria. God Had a Dog: Folklore of the Dog. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1961.
Lewis, Thomas, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon. A General Theory of Love. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.
Menache, Sophia. “Dogs and Human Beings.” Society & Animals 6, no. 1 (1998): pp. 67–86.
Serpell, James, ed. The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour, and Interactions with People. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Von Franz, Marie-Louise, Creation Myths. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1988.
Woloy, Eleanora. The Symbol of the Dog in the Human Psyche. Wilmette, Ill.: Chiron, 1990.
249 “as dogs”: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis, eds., The Brownings' Correspondence, vol. 13 (Winfield, Kans.: Wedgestone Press, 1987), no. 2,502.
251 “He & I”: Ibid., p. 157.
251 “I feel”: Tyler, William Royall, “Personal Memories of Edith Wharton,” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 85 (1973): p. 103.
252 “I talk of ”: Emily Dickinson,The Letters of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1, edited by Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), no. 212.
253 “One can love”: In Beck, p. 127.
253 “Tell Carlo”: Emily Dickinson,The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas Johnson (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1960), no. 186. First published 1890.
253 “an active creator”: Marie-Louise von Franz, Creation Myths (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1988), pp. 34–35.
254 “My little”: in George Ramsden,Edith Wharton's Library (Yorkshire, U.K.: Stone Trough Books, 1999), p. 28.
254 limbic resonance: See Lewis, pp. 63–65 254 “Flush's breathing”: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson, Brownings' Correspondence, vol. 6 (1984–87), p. 335.
254 “that extraordinarily”: Mitchell A. Leaska, ed. Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990), p. 243.
255 “Sometimes, when”: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972), p. 175.
255 “One hand”: Charlotte Bronte,Shirley (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford World's Classics, 1998), p. 386. First published 1849.
255 “A dog somehow”: In Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, eds., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 5 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975–80), no. 3,025.
255 “Life with”: Beck, p. 73.
256 “constancy of”: Ibid., p. 27.
256 “Keeper walked”: Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (London: Penguin, 1987), p. 269. First published 1857.
257 “Staunch & faithful”: Edith Wharton, The Letters of Edith Wharton, edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (London: Simon & Schuster, 1988), p. 155.
257 “It has been”: Scott Lewis, ed.,The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella, vol. 1 (Waco, Tex.: Wedgestone Press, 2002), no. 11, p. 13.
258 “I love him”: Kelley and Lewis,Brownings' Correspondence, vol. 5 (1987), p. 338. Illustration and Text Credits