![]() ![]() “Harris adapted them while living on the Turnwold cotton plantation in the southern US state of Georgia in the late 19th century,” Marshall wrote. ![]() “Potter used the introductions to some of her tales to emphasise her authorship, using phrases such as ‘I remember’ and ‘I can tell you’ as if taking the place of Harris’s fictional narrator.”įar from being about British culture, Harris’s stories “came to embody the tactics of resistance that enslaved people implemented to survive the brutality of plantation life.” She appears to have been keen to claim the stories as her own, while ensuring that readers didn’t make the connection between Peter Rabbit and the stories narrated by Uncle Remus,” she wrote. ![]() “The steps Potter took to steer readers away from her sources are problematic. ![]()
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