Being a fan of Peter Rabbit, tricksters, and folklore in general, I had a trifecta of reasons to dive into this scholarly article by Emily Zobel Marshall from The Conversation about the how Beatrix Potter’s stories owe more than a little to some influences far from the English countryside.
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