{"id":214809,"date":"2025-10-21T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:07:07","slug":"cat-on-novelists-dorchester-statue-not-susie-after-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214809\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat on novelist&#8217;s Dorchester statue &#8216;not Susie&#8217; after complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement posted on Facebook, Visible Women said: &#8220;While we initially hoped Susie could inspire the cat in the Sylvia Townsend Warner statue, the sculpture was always created from photographs, making a precise likeness impossible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Recent comments have caused upset and, as a charity, we feel it&#8217;s best to separate all ties. The cat is now simply a generic cat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sylvia Townsend Warner was a contemporary of Virginia Woolf and lived in Dorset with her long-term partner, Valentine Ackland, in the early 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the planning application for the statue, Dorchester Civic Society said: &#8220;Despite her remarkable contributions, her name is rarely mentioned and remains absent from Dorset&#8217;s literary landscape.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement posted on Facebook, Visible Women said: &#8220;While we initially hoped Susie could inspire the cat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-214809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}