Historical cat books show us how much attitudes and cat care have changed. These articles (and a few short stories from magazines) show how cats were considered, and cared for, and how attitudes changed, during the last 100 years.

1534 - Pietro Aretino - The Cloth Merchant and the Cats
1700s - Daniel Defoe - Excerpts About Cats
1800s - Satirical Newspaper Articles on Cats
1837- Categorical Remembrances from "Streetology"
1850s - White Cats, Tailless Cats, Maltese Cats
1870 - Pussy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
1872 - Character at a Cat Show
1872 - About Cats
1880s - Lady Violet Greville's Comments on Cats
1880s - 1900s - Performing Cats and How They Are Taught
1880s - 1900s French News Cuttings (Translated)
1800-1879 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1880-1883 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1884-1889 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1885 - Father of the Cats (Taking Cats on Pilgrimage to Mecca)
1885 - The Great Irish Cat Hoax
1871 - Mrs Brown at the Cat Show; 1889 - Told at a Cat Club; 1898 - Peter (A Reluctant Show Cat) (fiction)
1886 - Amaryllis, the Evolution of a Tom Cat; 1896 - Juno (short stories)
1889 - A Yarn About a Reluctant Show Cat); 1898 - Cats on Show. (fiction)
1890-1892 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)

1832 onwards - Cats (Chambers' Journal / Chambers' Edinburgh Journal)
1890s - Nicodemus, New York's Fake Champion Cat
1891 - Cats (The Strand Magazine)
1893-1895 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1893 - The Midnight Band of Mercy Vs The New York SPCA
1894 - The Brooklyn Cat Problem
1896-1899 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1896 - Seven Stages in the Life of a Kitten
1897-1898 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1899 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1899 - A Yarn About a Cat Ranch (short story)

1900s Early Twentieth Century Cuttings From Children's Magazines
1900s Cuttings From Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (Series on Cats)
1900-1905 - News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1906-1910 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1911-1914 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1915-1920 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1921-1929 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1930-1939 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1940-1949 News Cuttings (Miscellany)
1950- News Cuttings (Miscellany)

1903 -The Golden Fleece (fiction)
1904 - The Black Cat and the Cotton King
1905 - A Morning Call (fiction)
1905 - Steiff's Cat (short story)
1905 - Brooklyn's Tramp Cats Become Show Winners
1905 - The Half Hundred or so Cats of Mrs Edward Niles Harcomb (fiction)
1905 - The Slum Cat (Who Became a Cat Show Champion); 1906 - The Wooing of Nettie (early fiction about cat shows)

1905 - The White Cat (The Strand Magazine) (fiction)
1906 - The Girl Who Loved Cats So Well That She Agreed To Marry The Man Who Gave Her The Finest (short story)
1909 - Excerpt From "A Madman's Manuscript And How It Came To Me." (short story), The Man & the Cat (1910, The Bystander, short story), Mrs Wenderbury (1913, Truth, short story)
1910 - My Best Cat Story (1910, Strand Magazine) & Animal Actualities (1899, Strand)
1914 - Cat Predation Debate
1923 - The Cat Coming Back. Helping To Balance Turkey's Budget. One Million Coming West. Swiss Syndicate's Enterprise.
1928 - The Cat That Came to Stay (fiction)
1935 - Cats and Gamekeepers in Scotland
1935 - The Moathouse; 1939 - Where is Togo? (early fiction about cat shows)
1937 - Griselda of the Store (fiction)
1937 - Kuwait Cat's Meat Crisis