The Miss Emma Web Page

This page is dedicated to my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Miss Jovial Emma Peaseblossom. She was born on Monday, March 31, 1997, the day after Easter Sunday, so she just missed being an Easter Baby. Actually, her Mom, Spirit, did go into labor on Easter Sunday, March 30, but Spirit had seven puppies inside her which caused her difficulty. She was unable to give birth. The vets decided to wait until the next day before performing a Caesarian section, so Emma and her little brothers and sisters were delivered the Monday after Easter.

Here you see Miss Emma as a puppy, but showing the rich

chestnut-red and bright white that designate an excellent

Blenheim, as this color combination of the

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is termed.

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Here is Miss Emma a little older. Her fur has started to grow out.

She poses beneath the Christmas Tree in her warm Christmas sweater.

Her face in this shot, as well this full body picture, is what Martha Royer

used in the "Cavalier" theme for Kaleidoscope.

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 Here is a very short history of the "Blenheim" (Emma is a "Blenheim) and of the
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. You may read a short hitory  of the breed (but
longer than that presented below) on another page of my web site). For those of you
too busy to go on  to the short history, here is the very short history :
 (The link is not here, but at the bottom of the page.)

Marlborough; that is, the Churchills, as in Sir Winston Churchill) Cavalier King Charles

Spaniel is "Red and White."The RED IS ACUTALLY A DEEP RUSSET OR COPPER

COLOR. (Of course, it can vary from one dog to the next.)

This is not the "King Charles Spaniel," you know, but the "Cavalier King Charles Spaniel," a

resurrected breed (begun in the late 1920s, first really started in 1929, with the dog accepted 

as the standard, named "Ann's Son," and owned by a Mrs. Amice Pitt) made to look as the

King Charles Spaniel once did in the time of King Charles II, (Charles Stuart, the

"Merry Monarch" of England) from whom the dog derives its name.  (It was a Mr. Roswell

Eldridge, an American multi-millionaire who, in 1925, visited Great Britain  with the intention

of buying a pair of dogs who looked like the toy spaniels in the paintings of King Charles.

Disappointed that such dogs no longer existed,he arranged that special classes for the type

should be included at the Crufts dog show in 1926.) Why the British went in for changing the

look of that beautiful dog I'll never know, but, anyway, the original look is back in today's

"Cavalier." You can tell this by referring to painters of King Charles II's time, (lived

from 1630-1685,  was monarch from 1660-1685); for example, Reubens, Titian, Van

Dyck, or Reynolds. Just accepted into the A.K.C. in January of 1997, this breed is the largest

of the TOY DOG CLASS. (They have had, and still do have, their own Cavalier King

Charles Spaniel Club U.S.A., and some want to remain quite separate from the A.K.C.)

Emma is a female, and her full name is (I always insert a "Miss" before it) "Miss Jovial

Emma Peaseblossom Crumpet." Actually, in the A.K.C. records, it's just "Jovial Emma

Peaseblossom." The Jovial is the kennel name, and the breeder wanted that retained. The

breeder picked "Emma," although I was told I could change it to another "E"  name if I

wanted to, but it had to be an "E" name, because this was the breeder's "E litter."   Emma

was fine with me, because I do love the novel Emma  by Jane Austin.  The breeder wanted

"Jovial Ethereal Emma," which would have been fine, I suppose, but I suggested

"Peaseblossom," [with the Shakespearean spelling intact, otherwise it would be

"Pea's Blossom."]  the fairy [or fairie] from Shakespeare's A Missummer Night's

Dream.  (Fairies are "of flower and field," and Miss Emma loves both flowers

and fields dearly.)  "Crumpet" I chose because it does imply a sort of high class, beautiful

woman to the British (colloquial usage), but also because I enjoy both making and eating

Crumpets, which are really quite different from English Muffins, you know. The

"Crumpet" would not fit into  the A.K.C. registration format, which only allows so many

spaces and characters. I could have gotten "Crum" in, but I couldn't see ending the dog's name

with "Crum." Anyway, in my book, her full name is "Miss Jovial Emma Peaseblossom

Crumpet."

Thank you for asking.
 
 

THE LINKS BELOW ARE TO MY OWN SITE. FROM ANY LOCATION ON MY SITE, YOU MAY NAVIGATE TO ANY OTHER LOCATION:

CLICK HERE TO GO READ A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL.

CLICK HERE TO
LEARN OF SITES THAT TEACHERS MAY FIND USEFUL.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW EMMA'S GENEALOGY.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW
MORE OF MISS EMMA IN PICTURES.

CLICK HERE TO READ
ABOUT AND VIEW SOME PICTURES OF THE FOUR VARIETIES OF CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIELS.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT
"THE CAVALIER RESURRECTION" AND HOW IT HAPPENED. PICTURES ILLUSTRATE THE DISCUSSION.

CLICK HERE TO SEE
"ARNIE," EMMA'S DAD (ANIMATED).

CLICK HERE TO SEE
"SPIRIT," EMMA'S MOM (ANIMATED).

CLICK HERE TO GO TO "DOGGIE LINKS," WHERE YOU WILL FIND SOME OF MY FAVORITE CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL SITES. A DESCRIPTION OF EACH SITE IS PROVIDED. SOME ARE QUITE UNUSUAL. ONE FEATURES POSTAGE STAMPS. ANOTHER FEATURES OLD AND OUT OF PRINT BOOKS.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MISS EMMA'S LAKESIDE ADVENTURE, "MISS EMMA GOES TO THE LAKE."

CLICK HERE TO GO TO "EMMA IN THE MOVIES," WHERE YOU MAY VIEW A LITTLE MOVIE OF MISS EMMA AT 7 WEEKS OF AGE SITTING IN MY LAP THE DAY I FIRST SAW AND DECIDED TO ADOPT HER.