When the world locks down, Ms. Dalton writes in “Raising Hare,” she returns to the rural English landscape of her childhood summers but feels pinned down and struggles with the change of pace.

“ English hares just received; jugged hare to-day,” is an announcement often to be seen, in winter time, placarded in the windows of certain restaurants in New York, ...

Hare coursing is the illegal pursuit of hares by dogs, which are judged by how closely they can follow the twists and turns of the animal as it tries to escape. It is usually accompanied by gambling.