Watching Miss Potter last night, I had a geek "that's not right!" moment: while a young Beatrix Potter is telling the story of the Two Bad Mice she says that the food in the doll house was porcelain. I said "but wasn't it a plaster ham?" Upon checking today, yes, it was indeed a plaster ham.
Also, Beatrix wasn't the overly delicate little girl decrying her brother's collection of pinned moths: she and her brother skinned various animals to see their muscle and bone structure. Apparently, she also studied fungi in later life. Cool.
Posted by Sarah at September 10, 2007 05:44 PM