Mycologist and champion sheep breeder

June 20, 2015 10:58 PM

Beatrix Potter, frustrated mycologist

Also her recipe for gingerbread.

posted by bq (7 comments total)

Shockingly, this isn't a link to the Toast.
posted by The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal at 4:01 AM on June 21, 2015 [5 favorites]

Ooh, thanks for sharing! I just wrote a piece on Potter (which hasn't been pubbed yet) and I find the scientific side of her life completely fascinating.
posted by mynameisluka at 8:45 AM on June 21, 2015

I assumed all mycologists were frustrated
posted by Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam at 9:31 AM on June 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Thanks for sharing, yet another woman scientist ignored in her own time. I had vague recollections of Potter as a botanist, but didn't know any of the details.
posted by Fence at 10:02 AM on June 21, 2015

Champion sheep breeder indeed; I read somewhere that at her funeral an old Lake District farmer came forward to say he knew nothing about any books, but that her death was an irreparable loss to people who cared about Herdwicks.
posted by Segundus at 1:54 PM on June 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

> Shockingly, this isn't a link to the Toast.

I tried the gingerbread recipe this afternoon. None of you may ever, ever say anything bad about the Daily Mail again from this time forth.

PS, just asking, has The Toast ever given out its recipe for cinnamon toast? It has one, right?
posted by jfuller at 2:13 PM on June 21, 2015

Jessamyn looks like her.
posted by brujita at 6:32 PM on June 21, 2015