Miss Potter - liberated before her time?
April 20th 2007 03:17
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The story of Beatrix Potter who was a literary phenomenon of the early 20th Century: At a time when most young women of her class were simply concerned with making a good marriage [have things changed?] she showed herself to be remarkably liberated and worked to free her vivid imagination to create her great masterpieces with such delightful figures of the animal world.
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For those who need a gentle reminder, now that it is out on DVD, of the delights of her world and the meaning she brought into our childhood and in the words of Dr. Irene Kassorla who did so much to help autistic children, "Inside we are just two years old"
Find the child in you.
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