Episode 74: Beatrix Potter and Her Sheep

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:40.4	The thing that everybody knows about Beatrix Potter I suppose is that she was a lonely child
0:45.8	and that she didn't have any friends, but she had friends in the form of animals.
0:51.8	Beatrix Potter wrote dozens of books, including the tale of Peter Rabbit, and her books
0:58.0	have sold more than 250 million copies.
1:02.6	She was born in London 157 years ago, and apart from her younger brother, she didn't have
1:08.9	a lot of friends.
1:11.2	When she was five years old, she began to assemble a collection of pets.
1:16.4	She definitely connected with animals more than people.
1:22.1	Two lizards, she named Toby and Judy, a frog she named Punch, a snail she named
1:29.2	Old Bill.
1:31.0	She was, by all accounts, was gifted at taming animals very quickly.
1:38.5	Taming like mice, taming mice, toads, hedgehogs, her brother Bertram had a pet bat that they
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