Beatrix Potter

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was a naturalist, a conservationist, and a highly successful children's book author and illustrator, whose stories of Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphized animals have sold more than 150 million copies in at least 35 languages. But who was Beatrix Potter? What kind of childhood did she have? How did she, as an independent-minded artist and businessperson, navigate the male-dominated society of her times? In this episode, Jacke takes a look at a woman with many different talents, who succeeded as a scientist, a sheep farmer, a pioneering entrepreneur - and of course, as the creator of one of the world's most familiar and beloved fictional characters. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello. She was born in Kensington London in late July of 1866.
0:15.0	She died 77 years later in Lancashire,
0:18.0	in northwest England in the Lake District, she had come to love.
0:22.0	That journey from the city to the country is a good metaphor for her life as she shed her wealthy Victorian childhood and found a home in her beloved natural world.
0:32.0	But she was not naive. She combined a shrewd
0:34.7	business sense with a meticulous pride in her work that can only be satisfied by
0:40.0	having financial and artistic control.
0:43.0	Her name was Beatrix Potter, and we know her as a great author and illustrator of children's
0:48.0	works, including the characters she created, like Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle Duck, Mrs Tiggie Winkle, and of course Peter Rabbit.
0:58.0	But she was more than that.
0:59.2	She was also an entrepreneur, a pioneer in the world of business, and a respected scientist.
1:06.1	Who was Beatrix Potter?
1:07.9	What kind of childhood did she have?
1:10.1	How did she get started as a children's author?
1:12.4	What made her work so special? How did she get started as a children's author? What made her work so special?
1:14.2	How did she navigate her way through the publishing world
1:17.2	as an independent-minded woman in the late 19th
1:20.4	and early 20th century. Was she
1:23.0	happy? Was she fulfilled?
1:25.0	We'll look at the world of Beatrix Potter
1:28.0	today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast everyone. We are at another milestone.
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