by The History Chicks | May 19, 2018 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
This week we’re taking a look back at one of the women who surprised us both, in the most delightful of ways-Beatrix Potter. As time and technology has allowed, we’ve gone back and quietly remastered the audio in a number of our older shows and Beatrix is the latest. When we know better, we do better! (more…)
by The History Chicks | Apr 2, 2016 | Episode, Podcasts, Recap
In the middle of recording the media section of the Beatrix Potter episode we started to discuss the 2006 movie, Miss Potter starring Renee Zellweger as Beatrix when we realized that we both had a lot to say about it.
“Let’s do a moviecast!”
So we did.
by The History Chicks | Mar 26, 2016 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts, Shownotes
Once upon a time there were four little rabbits with very familiar names who knew a quiet girl named Beatrix Potter. Beatrix loved animals, nature and art…and one day she would make them the most famous rabbits in the world.
Beatrix, 1913 (wikicommons)
Helen Beatrix Potter was born July 26, 1866 to Rupert and Helen Potter. Her little brother, Bertram, was born six years later. Rupert was professionally a lawyer, but recreationally an art collector and amateur photographer. Helen was involved in some philanthropic organizations and ran a very tight ship (trying to be nice here).
Beatrix and Helen. She wasn’t a mean, horrible, abusive mother she simply hired the right staff so she could be protective by proxy.
Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.
