Monday, July 30, 2007

Miss Potter

Miss Potter is the author of Peter Rabbit, stories for children. The movie is about her life. She always loved to write and tell stories about animals. She draws and colour the animals beautifully. She became very successful and can afford a "Gentleman's Lifestyle". In England, the class system is very clear. The aristocrats who have all the money, land and status by birth. The rest are working class or peasant. Miss Potter was born into a rich family and fell in love with the publisher of her books. Her parents threatens not to give her any of the money should she marry this "tradesman". So she went to check her financial status and found that she could not only afford a country estate, she could buy farms and have very comfortable living for the rest of her life. Very much like JK Rowling.

Her father make a deal with her to stay away from this tradesman for a few months by sending her to the country and she still insist on marrying him, he will allow it. She fell in love with another man in the countryside and marry him instead and her mother object to this marriage as well. It is hard to change a woman's mind! (As you can see with both Miss Potter and her mum.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting story u have here BL
BT :)

Anonymous said...

Thanks, BT. SL and other female readers may find it a little sexist...
BL