{"id":492674,"date":"2025-10-12T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492674\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:17:16","slug":"how-cats-have-helped-write-some-great-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492674\/","title":{"rendered":"How cats have helped write some great books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f17061a7-b52f-4baa-8985-4162f8dd8e6d}{70}\" paraid=\"1538184142\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">New Zealand raised, Sydney-based lecturer and writer Susannah Fullerton has written\u00a0Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them. In it, she explores the special bond between renowned writers and their feline companions.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f17061a7-b52f-4baa-8985-4162f8dd8e6d}{70}\" paraid=\"1538184142\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Susannah has been President of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jasa.com.au\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Austen Society of Australia<\/a>\u00a0for almost 30 years and gives talks on famous writers and their novels, poems, and plays. She\u2019s with Jim to discuss the well-known authors who had a space on their lap for a cat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZYCU0_Susannah_Fullerton_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Renowned Australian literary historian and lecturer, Susannah Fullerton, is set to release her new book, Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nRenowned Australian literary historian and lecturer, Susannah Fullerton, is set to release her new book, Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them.<br \/>\nPhoto: Susannah Fullerton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand raised, Sydney-based lecturer and writer Susannah Fullerton has written\u00a0Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[1816,3444,9409,77,12,196,10975,10973,10974,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-podcasts","14":"tag-public-radio","15":"tag-radio-new-zealand","16":"tag-rnz","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115359269150318794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}