Bang, Bang, Smash, Smash
Rosemary Hill: Beatrix Potter, 22 February 2007
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
by Linda Lear.
Allen Lane, 584 pp., £25, January 2007,978 0 7139 9560 2 Show More
by Linda Lear.
Allen Lane, 584 pp., £25, January 2007,
“... that was so tight it gave her a headache. Difficulties with clothes occur in many of her books. Peter Rabbit’s expression of resigned discomfort as his mother buttons his coat up too tightly under his chin, Tom Kitten’s wide-eyed dismay as the buttons fly off his Sunday suit, and numerous accidents to pinafores are among the details that give the tales ... ”