Lady Jones, (October 27, 1889 to March 31, 1981) the wife of the chairman of Reuters, was a popular novelist. She used her maiden name, Enid Bagnold, for her writing. She remembered her father's wrath vividly, after a childhood event when she let the cat and kittens lick the butter on the table. The story would be told differently in one of her novels, The happy foreigner (1920):
She slapped the gray cat tenderly as she lifted him off the table. "Tell them ... to hurry! ..." Yet she ate a little piece of cake, scolding the cat and the children with her mouth full...Enid Bagnold is best known as the author of the story "National Velvet" (1935). It was made into a movie.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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