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Beatrix Potter.(Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature)(Book review)
From: The Horn Book Magazine
Date: 20070501
Author:Long, Joanna Rudge
* Linda Lear Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature 584 pp. St. Martin's 1/07 ISBN 978-0-312-36934-7 $30.00 (Of Interest to Adults)
Lear, a former professor of environmental history and author of a well-regarded biography of Rachel Carson, brings a valuable new perspective to a much-debated life. The lingering impression that Beatrix Potter was entrapped by stern Victorian parents and only escaped late in life to marry, raise sheep, and give up creating those wonderful little books is not so much contradicted here as buried in an avalanche of evidence: Lear presents enough ...
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