Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World'If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute The Times Excellent Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: how the British fell in love with felines Daily Mail Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era. He invented a whole cat world declared H. G.