Cited by T. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
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'Somewhat surprisingly given the very long history of canine domestication, recent work by Howell, Katherine Grier, Sarah Amato, Ingrid Tague, and others suggests that the positioning of dogs as participants in family life is a relatively recent phenomenon. [note: 'Howell, At Home and Astray; Sarah Amato, Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture (Toronto, 2015), chap. 2; Ingrid H. Tague, Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Philadelphia, 2015), chap. 3; Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination (Ithaca, 2010), chap. 3; Katherine C. Grier, Pets in America: A History (Chapel Hill, 2006); Kathleen Kete, The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Berkeley, 1994); Hilda Kean, The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War II’s Unknown Tragedy (Chicago, 2017).'].' (289)

'Lactol was the first of an expanding range of proprietary milk-food products developed by dog-food manufacturers such as Spratts Patent, W. G. Clarke, and Spillers & Co. during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s [note: On dog food manufacturers, see Grier, Pets in America, 277–91; Kean, The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, 84–98; Worboys, Strange, and Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog, 176–82.'].' (294)

'New modes of exchange and advertisement, alongside the increasing prominence of women in public life generally, encouraged women’s entry into many different kinds of dog-associated endeavor. Women breeders, pet-shop and “dog-parlor” owners, and canine nurses all participated in the emerging economy of canine care. [note: 'On these, see Grier, Pets in America, 272–77.']' (303-304)

'Writing to Our Dogs in 1939, an anonymous correspondent signing as “A Kennelmaid” put forward a proposal for what she termed an “ideal kennel.” Like the ideal parlors and kitchens that played such a significant role in 1930s domestic culture, this kennel was to be organized in accordance with what the writer referred to as “time-saving, rather than labor-saving” principles.' [note: 'A Kennel Maid, “My Ideal Kennel,” Our Dogs, no. 116 (18 August 1939): 484. The trend appears to have originated in the United States. See Grier, Pets in America, 304–12; Richard V. N. Gambrill (with J. C. Mackenzie), Sporting Stables and Kennels (New York, 1935).']' (312)