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    Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    Sometimes I'm frightened of my own bitterness and what I might be capable of.
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    I found a stack of Uttley's books at a thrift store a few months ago and snapped them up. I found them so pleasantly odd, and I'm delighted to know that the author was quirky, too. I can see both the comparison to Beatrix Potter and the definite differences between Uttley's and Potter's work.
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    06/17/09

    @QuicheLorraine:I inherited my dad's copies. I think if I re-read them, I would have some interesting thoughts re Little Grey Rabbit's domestic set-up. Hare is obviously gay but is Squirrel a drag-queen?
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    Don't forget that however much Uttley disdains Beatrix Potter, she was a scientist also but was prevented from joining the Royal Academy because she was a woman. She was the first person to discover that a lichen was a symbiosis of algae and fungus.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    Yes. I like a bit of grit. This makes me feel better about my inability to publicly 'squeeeeeee!' over baby animal pictures.
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    This makes me like her without ever having seen any of her work. Yet.
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    British artists, male and female, are universally the most competitive people I know, and I know a fair few of them, personally and professionally. Book launches over here are like a scene out of West Side Story, spontaneous dancing gang routines and all.
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    06/17/09

    @pond-side-over: wow... I was expecting more of the Bollywood type of dancing, but that's alright I guess.
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
    Sister! Yeah - still love her and artists usually do like to have some control over their ideas. Here's a clue. Try not to spend it all in one place.
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