Women against cruelty is the first book to explore women’s leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources. Women founded bodies such as the Battersea Dogs’ Home, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various groups that opposed vivisection. They energetically promoted better treatment of animals, both through practical action and through their writings, such as Anna Sewell’s
Black Beauty. Yet their efforts were frequ...
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Preface
Prefatory note: The archive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Introduction
1 Sexual distinctions in attitudes to animals in t...
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Diana Donald, now an independent scholar, is the author of
Picturing Animals in Britain 1750–1850, and co-author of the prize-winning
Endless Forms: Charles Darwi...