The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age

Harriet Ritvo (born 1946) is an American historian and Arthur J. Conner Professor of History Emeritus at MIT, specializing in environmental history, history of human-animal relations, and British history. She is best known for her seminal book The Animal Estate (1987), which earned a Whiting Award, along with other works like The Platypus and the Mermaid (1997) and The Dawn of Green (2009). Read more →