Identifying John Young And Gregory Streamer in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat.

The article proposes new identifications of historical counterparts for two figures in William Baldwin's novel "Beware the Cat," such as John Young, to whom the prefatory letter is addressed, and primary narrator Gregory Streamer. Topics include the anti-Catholic nature of the novel, the characteristics of John Young that made him a fitting addressee for Baldwin fictional persona G.B.'s dedicatory epistle, and a description of the fictional Streamer.