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BEATRIX POTTER: A LIFE IN NATURE

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From: Artforum
Date: 20070201
Author:Harman, Claire

BEATRIX POTTER: A LIFE IN NATURE BY LINDA LEAR NEW YORK: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS. 608 PAGES. $30.

I once served rabbit pie to my children on their Peter Rabbit nursery crockery, only realizing as the first spoonful fell that I might be being a little insensitive. Beatrix Potter, the creator of the world's best-loved bunny and dozens of other endearing characters, wouldn't have shared such qualms. She edited out of her most famous book a picture of the pie Peter's father ended up in, not because it might upset tots to see their hero's father en croute, but because she couldn't get the cook's face ...

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