Lördag med Gutenberg — och Rosa

A LITTLE GIRL WHO LOVED ANIMALS
chubby amused wandered proper
Bonheur eldest firelight passers
France sewing landscape auburn

A little four-year-old girl stood in her room making pictures upon the white walls. On every side could be seen drawings of horses and dogs, cows, rabbits, and sheep. The walls were covered with pictures as high as the chubby hand could reach.

In the doorway stood the father, watching his little daughter. So wonderful were her drawings for a little child that the neighbors often came into the tiny room to look at the pictures on the walls.

"My little Rosa will be an artist some day," said the father, "but she can never be a great artist because she is a girl. How I wish she were a boy!"

In those days it was not thought proper for a girl to do anything that would take her away from home. "A girl should stay in the house," people said. "She should spend her time in sewing and in helping her mother."
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Jag gillar läseböcker, de säger mycket om tiden då de skrevs — och de har ofta fina illustrationer. Men att jag skulle hitta Rosa Bonheur i en läsebok för tredje klass, från 1906, det var lite oväntat — i synnerhet som det är hennes födelsedag i dag.