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,
“... in school room and another in larder, but nothing seen of poor Sally.’ From an early age she drew compulsively and documented her animals living and dead. She was attached to them, but not sentimental. When pets died, or were chloroformed to put an end to their suffering, they were boiled down so that she and Bertie could draw the skeletons. This was ... ”