1893. Marshall Saunders is the pseudonym for Margaret Marshall
Saunders. Beautiful Joe is the real name of a real dog, whose story
she became familiar with while visiting her brother and his fiance
Louise Moore. The Moores had some years earlier rescued Beautiful Joe
from a vicious master who had cruelly beaten him and cut off his ears
and tail. So moved was she in the presence of this abused animal,
that she wrote a manuscript about his life, from an autobiographical
perspective of the dog. It was the first Canadian book to sell more
than one million copies. Throughout the rest of her life Saunders
championed women's and animal rights, spoke out on social problems
and was a passionate advocate of kindness to animals. For many
decades Margaret Marshall Saunders was Canada's best known and best
loved writer of children's stories.
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