
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.” — Mark Twain. This photo could only be better if Mark Twain were wearing his dog on his shoulder, like Edith Wharton liked to do with her pups.
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Beatrix Potter with “Kep” in 1915. Do you know who was GREAT? Beatrix Potter. If you read her youthful diaries, you’ll fall in love with her.
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Edith Wharton with Dogs on her Shoulders, Newport, RI, 1889. CAN I JUST REPEAT THAT CAPTION: “Edith Wharton, with Dogs on her Shoulders.” All author photos should look like this. By the way, I worship Edith Wharton. And her dogs.
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Beatrix Potter With The Real Peter Rabbit
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William Faulkner and his Jack Russell terriers, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. I like Faulkner. I like Cartier-Bresson even better. I like the dogs best of all.
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Charles Dickens with his dog. That’s a hell of a dog. Very impressive. The size of a Dickens novel.
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wedding reception in a library…my kind of commitment ceremony!
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The library at Hazlitt’s. I’ve stayed here. It’s Anglophile Paradise.
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Booze and Books. The Library Bar, Auckland, NZ.
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The GORGEOUS American cover…chosen by readers themselves…
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