Doreen Tovey
{{Short description|English writer (1918–2008)}}
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Doreen Tovey (24 October 1918 – 13 January 2008) was an English writer. She was the author of more than a dozen books about the life she and her husband 'Charles' (real name René) shared with their Siamese cats and other animals in Somerset, England. The books have sold more than 150,000 copies in eight countries.{{cite web|title=Doreen Tovey|url=http://www.summersdale.com/authors/24/doreen-tovey/|website=Dorren Tovey Author Page|publisher=Summersdale Publishers Ltd.|accessdate=28 April 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/13361 |title=Obituary of Doreen Tovey at booktrade.info |access-date=12 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201041500/http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/13361 |archive-date=1 February 2008 |url-status=dead }}
Bio
Tovey was born in Bristol and then grew up in Southville.{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Eva |date=7 Feb 2015 |title=A Somerset writer's tales of life with a band of Siamese cats has inspired a new story |work=Western Daily Press; Bristol (UK) |pages=30 }}
She was president of the Siamese Cat Club, president of the West of England Cat Club [http://www.moggies.co.uk/amazon/cats_in_the_belfry.html Synopsis of Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey] and president of the RSPCA for North Somerset.[https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042316/http://www.ourcats.co.uk/obituary.htm Obituary of Doreen Tovey at ourcats.co.uk]
Tovey died in 2008.{{Cite news |first= |date=27 Feb 2008 |title=Catwoman wrote of pet love |work=Western Daily Press; Bristol (UK) |page=14 }}
Books
- Cats in the Belfry, 1958Review of Cats in the Belfry
- {{Cite news |last=Lockridge |first=Richard |date=1958-09-28 |title=Consider the Siamese; Cats in the Belfry. By Doreen Tovey. With an introduction by Michael Joseph. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson. 163 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $2.95. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/09/28/archives/consider-the-siamese-cats-in-the-belfry-by-doreen-tovey-with-an.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=2024-08-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://archive.org/details/per_christian-science-monitor_1958-10-09_50_267/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22doreen+tovey%22 |title=How to be well trained by one' pets| work=The Christian Science Monitor|volume= 50 |issue= 267 |date=1958-10-09 |others=Internet Archive |language=English}}
- Cats in May (US title Cats in Cahoots), 1959Review of Cats in Cahoots
- {{Cite news |last=S.B.B. |url=https://archive.org/details/per_christian-science-monitor_1960-05-12_52_142/page/n19/mode/2up?q=%22doreen+tovey%22 |title='Cats in Cahoots' |date=1960-05-12 |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor |volume=52|issue= 142 |others=Internet Archive |language=English}}
- {{Cite news|last= Gingras |first=Agnele|url=https://archive.org/details/per_washington-post_1960-05-29_176/page/n65/mode/2up?q=%22doreen+tovey%22 |work=The Washington Post |title=These are bound to cheer you up|issue=176 |date=1960-05-29 |others=Internet Archive |language=English}}
- Donkey Work, 1963
- Life with Grandma, 1964
- Raining Cats and Donkeys, 1968
- The New Boy, 1970
- Double Trouble, 1972
- Making the Horse Laugh, 1974{{Cite journal |last=Gray |first=Patsy E. |date=Feb 15, 2001 |title=Making the Horse Laugh |journal=Library Journal; New York |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=219 }}
- The Coming of Saska, 1976
- A Comfort of Cats, 1979
- Roses Round the Door, 1982
- Waiting in the Wings, 1986
- More Cats in the Belfry, 1997
- Cats in Concord, 2001
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Category:20th-century English writers
Category:20th-century English women writers
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