![]() ![]() Her writing style has a tone of observational detachment, as if she were a journalist profiling these animals. As M Daphne Kutzer writes in Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code, “She never attempted to write a novel, but it is fair to say that a number of her small children’s books are in fact novels: their characters and their plots are as complex and open to interpretation as any novel published at that time.”Ĭommentary on British social relations of the early 20th Century appears everywhere in Potter’s work. The one thing we do know for a certainty is that when Potter depicts mice wearing aprons or rabbits smoking pipes, her stories inevitably reveal as much about human virtues and follies as they do the natural world. ![]()
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