Research Catalog

Title

Beatrix Potter : artist, storyteller and countrywoman / Judy Taylor.

Author

Taylor, Judy, 1932-

Publication

London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : F. Warne, 1996.

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Details

Description

224 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

• This volume is an illustrated biography of English author, illustrator, and natural scientist Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). Potter is best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Through original sketches, watercolors, and family photographs the author takes the reader through the course of her life, from her Victorian childhood in London to her final years farming in the Lake District area of northwest England also examining how Potter began creating children's books, and describing the influences on her work.
• "In the ten years since the first publication of this book a wealth of Beatrix Potter memorabilia, including letters, photographs and a diary fragment, has been unearthed from attics and safes and has passed through the sale rooms. The publication in 1989 of Beatrix Potter's Letters, my selection of some 400 of her letters from a collection of over 1,400, brought to light yet more correspondence, as did the publication in 1992 of Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter. Access to most of the 'new' matter has enabled me to include in this revised edition previously unpublished photographs and a certain amount of fresh material."--P. [8].

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Biographies
• Illustrated works
• Lake District (England) > Biography
• Children's stories > Authorship
• Children's stories > Illustrations
• Country life > England > Lake District
• Women artists > Great Britain > Biography
• Women authors, English > 20th century > Biography
• Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Illustrated works
• Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'My brother and I were born in London because my father was a lawyer there.' -- 'It is something to have a little money to spend on books and to look forward to being independent.' -- 'He did not live long, but he fulfilled a useful happy life.' -- 'The publisher is a gentleman who prints books, and he wants a bigger book than he has got enough money to pay for!' -- 'We are getting lambs here, and should be in full swing on the sheep farms in another week.' -- 'It is some years ago since I have walked on the beloved hills, but I remember every stone and rock -- and stick.' -- 'I have never quite understood the secret of Peter's perennial charm.'

ISBN

0723241759

OCLC

• 36392400
• SCSB-10579533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library