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Celebrity Cat Owners: Authors and Poets

Brian Aldiss

(1925-)
Author

Cats: Macrame, Yum-yum, Foxie, Jackson, Nickie [1]

Kingsley Amis

(1922-1995)
Author

Cat: Sarah Snow (white longhair) [1]

Matthew Arnold

(1822-1888)
Poet

Cats: Atossa, Blacky [1]

Jorge Luis Borges

(1899-1986)
Author

Cat: Beppo [1]

Charlotte Bronte

(1816-1855)
Author

Cat: Tiger [1]

Emily Bronte

(1818-1848)
Author

Cat: Tiger [1]

Samuel Butler

(1835-1902)
Author

Cat: Purdoe [1]

Lord Byron

(1788-1824)
Author
Owned 5 cats, which travelled with him [1]

Cat: Beppo [1]

Karel Capek

(1890-1938)
Czech Playwright

Cats:
Pudlenka [1]
Pudlenka II (daughter of Pudlenka) [1]
Pudlenka III (daughter of Pudlenka II) [1]

Thomas Carlyle

(1795-1881)
Author

Cat: Columbine [1]

Raymond Chandler

(1888-1959)
Author

Cat: Taki (black Persian) [1]

Jean Cocteau

(1889-1963)
Author

Cat: Karoun [1]

Quote: "I love cats because I love my home, and after a while they become its visible soul."

Colette

(1873-1954)
French Novelist

Cats: Kiki-la-Doucette (blue Angora), Saha, Mini-mini, Kro, Kapok, Muscat, La Touteu, Petiteu, Franchette, Zwerg, Pinichette, Ba-tou, Minionne, Toune, La Chatte, One and Only, La Chatte Derniere [1]

Quote: "There are no ordinary cats."

Cecil Day-Lewis

(1904-1972)
Poet

Cat: Simpkin [1]

Charles Dickens

(1812-1870)
Author

Cats:
William (renamed Williamina when she produced a litter of kittens) [1]
The Masters Cat (one of Williamina's kittens) [1]

Lynley Dodd

(1941-)
New Zealand Children's Author who wrote the Hairy MacClary books

Cat: Suu Kyi

Alexandre Dumas

(1802-1870)
French Novelist, Author of The Three Musketeers

Cats: Mysouff I, Mysouff II (black and white), Le Docteur [1]

T S Eliot

(1888-1965)
Poet

Cats: Wiscus, Pattipaws, George Pushdragon, Noilly Prat, Tantomile [1]

Anatole France

(1844-1924)
Author

Cats: Hamilcar, Pascal [1]

Anne Frank

(1929-1945)
Author

Cats: Boche, Tommy, Mouschi [1]

Theophile Gautier

(1811-1872)
French Poet and Novelist

Cats:
Childebrand (brown tabby) [1]
Madame Theophile (red tabby and white) [1]
Zizi (Angora) [1]
Don Pierrot de Navarre (white) [1]
Seraphita (white) [1]
Eponine (black) [1]
Gavroche (black) [1]
Enjoras (black) [1]
Cleopatre (black), Eponine's daughter [1]

Thomas Hardy

(1840-1928)
English Novelist

Cat: Cobby (blue Persian) [1]

Ernest Hemingway

(1898-1961)
American Author
Owned at least 30 cats

Cats: F. Puss, Dillinger, Thruster, Furhouse, Fats, Willy, Crazy Christian, Friendless Brother, Ecstacy [1]

Victor Hugo

(1802-1885)
French Novelist

Cats:
Mouche [1]
Gavroche (later renamed Chanoine - the canon), Angora [1]

Dr Samuel Johnson

(1709-1784)
Author

Cats: Lilly, Hodge [1]

Michael Joseph

(1897-1958)
British Publisher

Cats:
Charles [1]
Minna Minna Mowbray (tortoiseshell tabby and white shorthair) [1]

Sir Compton MacKenzie

(1883-1972)
Author
At one time, owned at least 11 Siamese

Cats: Tootoose, Sylvia, Pippo [1]

Margaret Mahy

(1936-)
New Zealand Children's Author

Cats:
Domino (Black and white)
Orsino (Domino's kitten)
Basil (Brown tabby)
Sabbath

Michel de Montaigne

(1533-1592)
French Essayist

Cat: Madame Vanity [1]

Iris Murdoch

(1919-)
Author

Cat: General Butchkin [1]

Beverly Nichols

(1898-1983)
English Author, Composer, Playwright)
Named his cats after numbers, not names

Cats:
Number One (Siamese)
Two
Three
Four
Five
Seven (skipped six because it sounded like "Sicks")
Eight (the kitten was already named Oscar before he got it) [1]

Edgar Allen Poe

(1811-1849)
Author

Cat: Catarina (tortoiseshell) [1]

Agnes Repplier

(1855-1945)
American Essayist

Cats: Agrippina, Banquo, Banshee, Nero, Carl [1]

Gabriel Rossetti

(1783-1954)
Poet

Cat: Zoe (black and white) [1]

George Sand

(1804-1876)
Author

Cat: Minou [1]

Dorothy L Sayers

(1893-1958)
Author

Cat: Timothy [1]

Sir Walter Scott

(1771-1832)
Scottish Novelist

Cat: Hinse (tabby) [1]

Robert Southey

(1774-1843)
English Author and Poet

Cat: Bona Marietta, The Zombi, Pulcheria, Sir Thomas Dido, Rumpel [1]

Harriet Beecher Stowe

(1811-1896)
American Author

Cat: Calvin [1]

Sir Roy Strong

(1935-)
Author

Cat: The Reverend Wencelas Muff (black) [1]

William Makepeace Thackeray

(1811-1863)
Author

Cat: Louisa [1]

Mark Twain

(1835-1910)
American Author

Cats: Sour Mash, Apollinaris, Zoroaster, Blatherskite, Beelzebub [1]

Horace Walpole

(1717-1797)
Author

Cats: Selima, Fatima, Harold, Patapan, Zara [1]

H G Wells

(1866-1946)
Author

Cat: Mr Peter Wells [1]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

(1850-1919)
Poet

Cats: Ajax, Banjo, Goody Two Eyes, Madame Ref [1]

Sir Angus Wilson

(1913-1991)
Author

Cat: Cookie [1]

References

1. Morris D, Cat World, Great Britain: Random House, 1996

Animal Fair Magazine, Various issues, Website

Animal World Network, Website

Cat Fancy Magazine, Various issues, Website

EOnline, Online

Internet Movie Database, Online

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