A BOOK TO READ
"The Tale of Beatrix Potter," by Margaret Lane, will be of great interest to all lovers of "Peter Rabbit," "Squirrel Utkin" & all the rest of these delightful tales of our youth. The circumstances of Beatrix Potter's early life were fantastic. She was an extreme case of the Victorian daughter. Repressed, living in a cold nursery at the top of a South Kensington house. She grew to be a retiring, timid young girl. Even at the age of thirty-nine she was still chained to her parents demands. They forbade her marriage to a partner in her publishers firm. because that was trade. She later married a Mr Heelis, and became a cheerful country woman.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 8, 6 March 1952, Page 1
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