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Beatrix & Bertha.(Bertha Mahony, Beatrix Potter)(Biography)

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From: The Horn Book Magazine
Date: 20060701
Author:Robinson, Lolly

Beatrix Potter's resistance to critics and fans writing about her books is well documented. In 1939 Margaret Lane, who would later become Potter's first biographer, received a classic brush-off:

So I wrote to Beatrix Potter, as politely and respectfully as I knew how, telling her of my lifelong pleasure in her work, and my admiration, and asking if I might one day call on her and submit for her approval the essay on her work which I was preparing.

Back came, in a few days, the rudest note I have ever received in my life. No, she said, she certainly would not see me. "My ...

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