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I spoke too soon. Beatrix Potter, I suggested in an afterword to my 2016 biography of the author and illustrator, had escaped the distortions of sexual and racial revisionism that now blight so many eminent and long-dead British writers. But no longer. Last week a specialist in postcolonial literature at a northern university accused Potter

Beatrix Potter's famous tales are rooted in stories told by enslaved Africans – but she was very quiet about their origins

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Overlooked No More: Beatrix Potter, Author of 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' - The New York Times