Shaggy Muses in California

Maureen Adams, the author of Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë is tonight at Reader's Books in Sonoma, California:

Friday, August 10, 7 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m. reading Dog owner, psychologist, and former literature professor Maureen Adams examines the bond between five of our favorite writers and their dogs by looking at the writers’ diaries, letters, and other accounts of their lives. Emily Dickinson, for example, had Carlo, her giant Newfoundland, with her whenever she ventured outside her father’s house. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was coaxed out of a serious depression by her cocker spaniel Flush. This book was inspired by the loss of the author’s own dog, and her determination to understand the depth of her grief and the meaning of the human-animal bond. Maureen Adams lives in Sonoma.

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