Tuesday 28 July 2015

Beatrix Potter, Mycologist

Beatrix Potter, Mycologist

At a time when women had no right to vote and virtually no access to higher education, very rarely owned property and were themselves considered the property of their husbands, Potter became a commercially successful writer and artist. But no aspect of Potter’s kaleidoscopic genius is more fascinating than her vastly underappreciated contribution to science and natural history, which comes to life in Linda Lear’s altogether magnificent "Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature."
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