Stephanie Howard-Smith
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Dr. Stephanie Howard-Smith is a dog lover and animal historian. She has a PhD on the cultural history of lapdogs in the eighteenth century and has given lectures to English and history students at universities across the United Kingdom. She is the author of a number of academic essays on dogs in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Britain. Her scholarly research has explored London’s first celebrity veterinarian, porcelain pugs, and dogs at home in Georgian England. Howard-Smith also writes about dogs in culture and society for a popular readership. Yap! is her first book.
