The author was one of the early proponents of, show cats. This activity began at a Crystal Palace exhibition (1871) and the idea of awarding prizes to individual cats among groups of groomed and carefully bred felines, caught on, especially since royalty participated in raising cats. We know little of her private life but Simpson lived in the world of the cat fancy.
We are indebted to www.messybeast.com for more information about this writer. For now though we are going out of that fancy world, and quoting Simpson on --- stray cats. She gives a glimpse of the middle class attitude to the homeless cat when she discusses licensing cats (she calls it taxing cats) and says such a policy would not help, " in exterminating the poor, disreputable, half starved members of the feline tribe, who have no fixed abode and whose only means of existence is by plunder."
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