3. pp. 130–31 ‘A most barbarous and disgraceful way … like a cricket-bat)’: William Gooch, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cambridge (London: Richard Phillips, 1813), p. 284.
4. p. 135 In 1612, the significance of adding peas: Gervase Markham, Cheap and Good Husbandry For the Well Ordering of All Beasts and Fowls (London: George Sawbridge, 1668), pp. 105–7.
5. p. 136 ‘This bacon is raised here … thrown away’: Daniel Defoe, Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 4th edition (London: S. Birt and T. Osborne, 1748), p. 42.
6. p. 141 As far back as the 1690s: ‘Instructions to Fatten Swine in Towns’ in Adolphus Speed’s The Husbandman, Farmer and Grasier’s Compleat Instructor (1697), p. 91, quoted in The English Pig, p. 41.
7. p. 141 ‘their condition and surrounding were filthy … winds carried far and wide’: Medical Officer, St George the Martyr, Southwark, quoted in The English Pig, p. 43.
8. p. 142 ‘The houses of the poor’: Four Periods of Public Education as Reviewed in 1832-1839-1846-1862 in papers by James Kay-Shuttleworth (London: Longmans, 1862), pp. 21–2.
9. p. 143 ‘“I have,” said a lady who was present’: Sarah Trimmer, Fabulous Histories Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting Their Treatment of Animals, 5th edition (London: Longmans, 1793), p. 71.
10. p. 143 ‘the learned pig was in his day a far greater object of admiration’: Robert Southey, Letters from England, 3rd edition, 3 volumes (London: Longmans, 1813), vol. iii, p. 19.
11. p. 150 ‘hogs fattened with chestnuts’: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (London: John Murray, 1842), vol. 3, p. 82.
12. pp. 150–51 it’s been estimated that a family would need to put in: for estimates of labour for chestnut gathering, see Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas (eds), The Cambridge World History of Food, 2 volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), vol.1, p. 361.
13. p. 154 one card from 1905: for ‘Lyon-vaise. The bleeding of pigs’, see Michael D. Garval. 2015. ‘Visions of Pork Production, Past and Future, on French Belle Epoque Pig Postcards’. Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, 14 (1), fig. 21.
14. p. 161 ‘the Learned Pig of Charing Cross … Montreuil, &c., &c.’: a newspaper report quoted in Jan Bondeson, The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), p. 25.
15. p. 162 Louis as a pig: for the pig-king career of Louis XVI, see Jacob Rogozinski, translated by Nicholas Newth, ‘Revolution and Terror: or how Louis XVI was turned into a pig’ in Stasis (2 July 2014).
16. p. 163 ‘strongly resembling England’: see Arthur Young’s journal entry for 15 May 1787 in Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (London: Richardson, 1792).
17. pp. 164–5 ‘Too much learning, we suppose, had driven the pig mad … such amusement in most parts of England’: newspaper report quoted in The Feejee Mermaid, pp. 25–6.
18. p. 166 ‘At Banbury, Mr John Nicholson’: marriage notice from the Monthly Magazine, or British Register (London: Richard Phillips, 1812), vol. 33, p. 81.
5
1. p. 173 ‘The smiling countenance of my own grandmother’s deceased pig … and slops’: draft letter to the Times newspaper, in Beatrix Potter’s Letters, edited by Judy Taylor (London: Frederick Warne, 1989), p. 191.
6
1. p. 196 ‘the doors of the exhibition room are daily thronged’: the history of Munito, the Learned Dog, is taken from a collection of newspaper clippings known as Lyson’s Collectanea, quoted in Jan Bondeson, Amazing Dogs, A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities (Stroud: Amberley, 2012), p. 22.
2. p. 196 ‘not by any means competent’: Scott Martin, Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789–1860 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), p. 203.
3. p. 196 ‘It was clear he chose by smell’: Charles Dickens was examining Munito’s tricks when he made the comment about learned animals being trained by smell, quoted in Amazing Dogs, p. 32.
4. p. 197 ‘Acrobats in its drawing-rooms’: a description of Savile House by George Sala in an article entitled ‘Leicester Square’ (19 March 1853). Household Words, 7, 64–5.
5. p. 201 ‘ferocious and blood-thirsty … beating each other to death’: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and descriptions of eighteenth-century Paris are quoted in Sydney Watts, Meat Matters – Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006), pp. 63–84.
6. p. 201 ‘drunkenness, confusion and riot … savage’: Smithfield market as described by John Hogg, London as it is, being a series of observations on the health, habits and amusements of the people (London: John Macrone, 1837), pp. 218–20.
7. p. 207 In February, The Times carried an advertisement: classified advertisement ‘For the attention of GENTLEMEN and LADIES’, The Times (Thursday, 9 February 1815).
8. p. 207 ‘The Life and Adventures of Toby the Sapient Pig: with his Opinions on Men and Manners. Written by Himself’: the quotations from Toby’s ‘autobiography’ are taken from the edition republished by the British Library Historical Collection (London: British Library, 2011).
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