Captures the extraordinary relationships that existed between five noted women writers and their dogs--including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cocker spaniel Flush, Emily Dickinson and her Newfoundland Carlo, Emily Brontë's mastiff Keeper, Edith Wharton's Pekingese Mitou, and Pinka, the cocker spaniel who helped Virginia Woolf deal with bouts of mental illness. 25,000 first printing.