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Kathryn Hughes explores changing Victorian attitudes to cats and charts the emergence of the modern moggy through the life and career of artist Louis Wain <\/p>

By Charlotte Hodgman\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 22 May 2024 at 06:10 AM<\/p>

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At the end of the 19th century, Britain and America entered the grip of a cat craze that saw the humble moggy catapulted from urban nuisance to beloved household pet. Historian Kathryn Hughes speaks to Charlotte Hodgman about 19th-century attitudes to cats, and how Louis Wain\u2019s anthropomorphic drawings helped us fall in love with all things feline.<\/p>\n\n

Kathryn Hughes is the author of Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World<\/em> (Fourth Estate, 2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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