![]() His portrait of the woman is dramatically at odds with what I thought I knew about her from the dull films of my childhood - meek, repressed, solitary, deeply genteel. Matthew Dennison’s fascinating biography, Over the Hills and Far Away, goes to the heart of this peculiar dislocation in Potter’s work. Nature is red in tooth and claw, even when adorably kitted out in a little blue jacket. Squirrel Nutkin has his tail ripped off by an angry owl. Peter Rabbit narrowly escapes being killed and eaten. Matthew Dennison, who recently published a new biography of Beatrix Potter presents the story of her life in his book “Over the Hills and Far Away”.Īnyone who has tried to read her stories to a small child will know, the stories themselves are often violent and unsettling, and the last thing you need at bedtime. ![]()
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