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Tess Cosslett

Tess Cosslett is a scholar and author known for work on Victorian literature and children's fiction, especially animal stories and the human-animal relationship in British children's writing. Her published book includes *Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914*, which reexamines canonical works such as *Black Beauty*, *Beautiful Joe*, *The Wind in the Willows*, and *Peter Rabbit*.[1][8]

literary criticism children's literature Victorian literature
Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914 (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914 (The Nineteenth Century Series)
2017