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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

It's the official end of an era at Disneyland.

It's the official end of an era at Disneyland.

It's the official end of an era at Disneyland.

It's the official end of an era at Disneyland.

It's the official end of an era at Disneyland.

It's the official end of an era at Disneyland.

Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, an expert in postcolonial literature at Leeds Beckett University, has called for wider acknowledgment of the debt Potter owed to the stories told by African slaves in American.

The Peter Rabbit author has been accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ after an academic claimed some of her most popular stories originated from folktales told by enslaved Africans.

LIBBY PURVES: Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University claims Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit and his fellows are cultural appropriation