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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
by Linda Lear.
Allen Lane, 584 pp., £25, January 2007,978 0 7139 9560 2 Show More
by Linda Lear.
Allen Lane, 584 pp., £25, January 2007,
“... were awkwardly placed in mid-Victorian Kensington. Their friends included the ageing Radical John Bright and Elizabeth Gaskell’s widower, William. But smart society was closed to them and this was something that Beatrix’s mother, Helen, seems to have minded deeply. A grim-faced little woman, she apparently occupied herself entirely with a round of ... ”