Of course I’m not going to stop reading Potter.” But the emotion is there & she touches it. “I felt somewhat at a loss,” he confessed to Jones: “I do sometimes feel ashamed of liking these sweet little bunnies. In Larkin’s account of the letter, which he relayed to another of his girlfriends (Monica Jones), Strang had accused him “of not liking animals at all, only Potter ones & ones on my mantelpiece”. In 1952, almost 10 years after Beatrix Potter’s death, the young Philip Larkin received a letter from his sometime girlfriend, Patsy Strang, in which he was reprimanded for his sentimental attitude to animals.
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