One of the most unusual and eccentric artists of the late 19th and early 20th Century spent some of his most productive years drawing in a sleepy Kent seaside town.

Can you believe there was a point in time when cats were seen as pests? During the late 19th century, no respectable member ...

but it was in the asylum author Kathryn Hughes says Wain, ironically, felt free to pursue his interest in Japanese and surreal art. In "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania," Hughes threads ...