Animal Estate The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age

An unusual social history of Victorian England...Deftly written and generously illustrated, The Animal Estate details the spectrum of Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of zoology, the hunt, the rabies panic (not unlike today's pit bull hysteria), and more. The reader will come out with a fuller understanding of the Victorian people and the development of our bonds with animals.Ritvo, Harriet is the author of 'Animal Estate The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age', published 1989 under ISBN 9780674037076 and ISBN 0674037073.