Bibliograph

Type

Label

Beatrix Potter, a life in nature, Linda Lear

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsfacsimilesplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beatrix Potter, a life in nature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

952664750

Responsibility statement

Linda Lear

Summary

BIOGRAPHY: LITERARY. In this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" brought her fame, financial success, and the promise of happiness when she fell in love with her editor Norman Warne. After his tragic and untimely death, Potter embraced a new life as the owner of Hill Top Farm in the English Lake District and a second chance at happiness. As a visionary landowner, successful farmer and sheep-breeder, she was able to preserve the landscape that had inspired her art

Table Of Contents

Roots -- Exposures -- Transitions -- Experiments -- Discoveries -- Fantasies -- Ideas -- Realities -- Losses -- Stories -- Diversions -- Satisfactions -- Partnerships -- Salvages -- Opportunities -- Legacies -- Americans -- Ventures -- Passages -- Challenges -- Reflections -- Epilogue: Stewardship

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Life in nature

Classification