Concerning Cats

“Can’t you get me one?” Helen asks her cat, the Pretty Lady, while ill in bed. Moments later, the devoted mother returns with her kitten and places him in Helen’s neck.

In the homes, boarding-houses and summer retreats of late nineteenth-century New England, Helen M. Winslow watches the cats who share her life with affection—and a sharp eye for their ways. The Pretty Lady is no mere pet: she follows Helen from place to place, keeps close watch over her, and seems to understand when care is needed. Winslow makes a playful case against the notion that cats love only their homes, finding in their reserved gestures a loyalty as deep as any human bond. How much does the Pretty Lady know about the woman she has chosen?

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