Ignore the twee family website. Tasha Tudor (a successful book illustrator, she died a few years ago) is the object of a squalid dispute among her children. They are fighting over her assets like animals in an Aesop’s fable.
Moral: Only lawyers will get anything.
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A detail from her will:
Tudor’s 2001 will asked that she be buried with her predeceased dogs and the ashes of her pet rooster Chickahominy, should he die before her.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:43PM
From MOTHER GOOSE to BLEAK HOUSE, eh? Shades of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.
Supposedly a number of spectacular Regency country houses were erected on credit in England by descendants of the Thellusson Bequest (the real life basis for all those bizarre will fights in Victorian literature) — only to discover the funds were eaten through and they got nothing.
Segueing to another genre, here’s a discussion of WHITE NOISE on Slate you might find of interest:
http://www.slate.com/id/2244495/