Status Updates From The Real Beatrix Potter

the "pick me girl" attitude of the author is REEEEAAAALLY pushing through in the last bit of the book. so glad i got to get more in depth about Beatrix's complicated relationship with her family in this book but oh boy does it come at a cost...

huge lols at Beatrix having beef with Kenneth Grahame for…having Ratty comb his hair

Beatrix furiously sending out pamphlets and getting wildly into politics for a year because of copyright issues is exactly what i didn't know i needed to know

all hail beatrix, one of the first self-publishers!

this book often condescending (towards the reader as well as some of the figures of which it speaks) but at least the author still included the delightful juxtaposition of Beatrix not seeing marriage as the be-all and end-all, while at the same time believing a happy marriage to be the crown on a happy woman's life (tho not, you notice, the sum of it)

Good heavens, she met and impressed Tennyson as well??!

I'm sad that this wasn't included in Miss Potter but i can sorta see why they made the narrative choice.

it's also DELIGHTFUL to see how Beatrix came into her land trust ideas

lil beatrice cutting up animal bodies and studying skellingtons was not what i expected, but somehow also not surprising? 😂😂😂