Review of Miss Potter (2006) by Richardj. — 03 Feb 2007

I saw this with my wife, expecting the worst-having read most of the reviews. However I was very pleasantly surprised. A change from all the usual riubbish Iv'e seen lately. It worked on many levels (obviously lost on most of the reviewers it seems-how can they say she had a boring unevenful life, she became the biggest selling childrens author on the planet, brought 1000's of acres of gorgeous countryside for the nation, and before she could announce her engagenent to her publisher, he tragically dies on an imposed seperation of a holiday???) It was a tragic love story, a story about how women in the 1900's were suppose to just marry and bring up children in loveless marriages, about social barrires, class and pretension.

BUT for me it was the story about how she virtually single handedly saved the Lake District from development and its thanks to Beatrix Potter this area remains as proably the most beutiful area anywhere in the World.

A work of art.