Miss Potter

I did read Beatrix Potter as a very young child but somehow didn't remember it well and other reading crazes at older ages left a deeper memory. So when the film, "Miss Potter", came out last year, I didn't bestir myself to rush to view it. More recently however, my sister lent me her DVD copy and I found it actually inspiring as a tale of a woman who was greatly determined, and endowed with high imagination, intellect and artistic skill. She was a woman who despite the Victorian constraints on a well off family managed to become a botanist in fact if not in name.

I also only discovered through this movie that she was also a conservationist in the Lake District area in England. I must have seen the areas where she walked and owned property and I must have even rambled across some of the land she bought up as farms and subsequently gave to the National Trust in England.

She also married late in life and only after achieving independent income and wealth and then became a farmer and I was thinking for a woman of her class and in her day, she really transcended class and gender.

Hats off to a very creative and strong willed soul who has given us not just bunny tales, but a whole tract of land to walk upon, not to mention her botanical work. "Miss Potter" is a movie I'd highly recommend that all women in particular and people interested in the Lake District, England, the English countryside, conservation and of course Beatrix Potter tales in general would most likely find enjoyable.