https://womenyoushouldknow.net/beatrix-potter-naturalist/
"“I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about
four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and
Peter.” In 1893, when Beatrix Potter sent these words, and the picture
story that accompanies them, down in a letter written to a sick child,
she was not an internationally known author, or universally loved
illustrator – she was a profoundly isolated individual enchanted
primarily by the study of nature and the cataloguing of its fine
structures. Frustrated by her parents’ pervasive grip on her life, and
convinced that her destiny lay with her pen, her brush, and her
discerning eye, she spent the 1890s engaged not in the production of
children’s books, but in a deep study of mushrooms and their mechanisms
of germination before the callousness of a few powerfully placed British
scientists thrust her from her first passion, and placed her firmly on
the road that led to Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, and immortality."
Via Muse, who wrote: "Fabulous story about Beatrix Potter’s life. Sadly,
academia is still frequently closed to women in certain fields."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
