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BOOK REVIEW: SHAGGY MUSES

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From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 20070801
Author:PHIL DAVIS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHIL DAVIS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
08-01-2007

BOOK REVIEW: SHAGGY MUSES
By PHIL DAVIS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 08-01-2007, Wednesday
Section: BETTER LIVING
Edtion: All Editions

* SHAGGY MUSES: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte, by Maureen Adams; Ballantine, $24.95.

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Countless lovers who, lacking their own voice, relied on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous "Sonnets From the Portuguese" to woo their beloved should mutter silent thanks to a cocker spaniel named Flush.

Without the plucky ...

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