The Philosopher's Cat

 quoting wikipedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL  (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are  Excellent Women  (1952) and  A Glass of Blessings  (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic  Lord David Cecil  and the poet  Philip Larkin  both nominated her as the most under-rated writer of the century. Her novel  Quartet in Autumn  (1977) was nominated for the  Booker Prize  that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the  Royal Society of Literature ."     Actually, I don't recall she was a great cat lover, and  I strongly suspect that picture below is publicized for zeitgeist reasons.

 

Since British royalty (except for Lady Colin Campbell) seem singularly free of  feline influence, I thought it noteworthy that there may be a cat statue on desk on the desk in this picture.  This photo dated around March 2022

His Who's Who actually is quoted below: Fülop-Miller, René https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49524 Published online:  01 December 2007 Born  Caransebes, Transylvania,  17 March 1891 ; father of German Protestant ancestry, by profession chemist, mother a descendant from the famous Macedonian family of Brancovitch;  m   1916 , the Hungarian soprano Heddy Bendiner of the Budapest Opera; no  c ;  died   7 May 1963 author Education High Schools of Vienna; Lausanne; Paris studied pharmaceutical chemistry, anatomy, psychiatry Career After educn took up journalism; after the war, several journeys to Soviet Russia which led to the publication of Dostoievski’s and Tolstoi’s posthumous works as well as to Mind and Face of Bolshevism; subsequently successful literary career Member Authors’ Society Publications Mind and Face of Bolshevism (Engl. trans.  1927 ); Lenin and Gandhi (Engl. trans.  1928 ); The Russian Theatre (Engl. trans....

A statue of a dog found in a Roman tomb--- pictures in article so you  may (OR NOT) agree on who it resembles http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63056

Edith Pargeter (September 28, 1913 to October 14, 1995) is the real name behind the mystery writer Ellis Peters, whose 12th century detective stories are widely popular. For instance the BBC adapted her Brother Cadfael mysteries for a television series starring Derek Jacobi.  Some of her stories feature cats.  The Trinity Cat  (2006, may be a reprint date) is the leading story in a collection of that name, and her cat stories appear in other collections also:  More Mystery Cats  (1993) edited by Lilian Jackson Braun is just one example. Pargeter also won a reputation and awards for her work translating Czechoslovakian literature.  The Terezín Requiem  (1963), was a Joseph Bor story of a Verdi concert at Auschwitz.. In 1949,  The Coast of Bohemia , her account of her travels there, had appeared.