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Overview

In this remarkable biography, Linda Lear offers a new look at the 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. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature reveals a lively, independent and passionate woman, whose art was timeless, and whose generosity left an indelible imprint on the countryside.

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For most of us, Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is a name that conjures up anthropomorphic rabbits and puddle-ducks. Linda Lear's Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature adds depth and color to the image. The first truly comprehensive biography of "Peter Rabbit's mother" places the famed author/illustrator within the context of her times. Potter once wrote, "I do not remember a time when I did not try to invent pictures and make for myself a fairyland amongst the wild flowers, the animals, fungi, mosses, woods and streams, all the thousands objects of the countryside." Lear shows how Potter's love of nature was woven inextricably to her artistry. A pastel treasure.
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Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), creator of the immortal Peter Rabbit, is known as an avid writer of comical illustrated letters to friends and as an assertive marketer of her illustrations, and this lively volume also captures her energetic participation in Victorian-era natural history research and conservation. Environmental historian Lear (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature) relates that, as a child in an upper-middle-class family, Potter sketched flowers, dead animals and live lizards, insects and rodents that she brought home. "Rabbits were caught, tamed, sketched, painted" by young Beatrix and her brother, Bertram. In 1893, while traveling with her pet rabbit, Peter Piper, and seeking unusual fungi with self-taught mycologist Charles McIntosh, Potter jotted an illustrated note "about a disobedient young rabbit called 'Peter' " to an ailing child friend and sketched Peter's nemesis, a McIntosh–look-alike farmer called Mr. McGregor, creating "two fictional characters that one day would be world-famous." Lear judges Potter "a brilliant amateur" naturalist who expressed strong convictions about land preservation. Potter's witty journals, with their close observations of people, animals, objects and places, serve as the basis for Lear's engrossing account, which will appeal to ecologists, historians, child lit buffs and those who want to know the real Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Benjamin Bunny. A movie, Miss Potter, also releases in January. 16 pages of color illus., 8 pages of b&w illus. not seen by PW. (Jan.)

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Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), author/illustrator of more than 20 "little books" for children, is known for her collection of Peter Rabbittales. In this remarkable biography, Lear (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature) provides "an exploration of the life and times of a woman who is a household name on several continents, but whose personal life and significant scientific and environmental accomplishments remain largely unknown." Drawing on Potter's journal, letters, and many other primary and secondary sources, Lear contends that Potter brought nature back into the English imagination with her books and illustrations. Readers learn about Potter's difficult parents, the prescribed Victorian code of conduct in which she grew up, her relationship with her publisher, her reaction to the death of her first fiancé, and her role as a major benefactor of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest and Natural Beauty. The detailed analysis of Potter's works enables Lear to comment on Potter's artistry in storytelling and illustrating. The author's meticulous attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended for academic, special, and public libraries.
—Kathryn R. Bartelt
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A stolid biography by environmental historian Lear (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, 1997) that gets at the facts of Victorian Potter's life but does not bother addressing motivations and thwarted ambition. Born in 1866, Potter, a child of wealthy Unitarians in the calico manufacturing business, enjoyed a privileged upbringing between South Kensington, London, and the country homes of her grandparents in the Lake District and in Perthshire, Scotland. These locales stimulated her early interest in natural history, often a passion for the Victorians. Never sent to school as her younger brother was, but taught at home by tutors, Potter demonstrated an early talent for drawing, developed by copying animals and plants from nature, especially fungi and lichen viewed through a microscope. She eventually developed some theories about fungi reproduction, but they were dismissed as amateurish. (Lear argues that she could have become an expert in any number of fields, such as botany, archaeology, geology and mycology.) Approaching spinsterhood, and seething against a domineering mother, she first published some of her animal designs in holiday cards, then grew determined to become financially independent. Her first Peter Rabbit work had been fashioned in letters to the children of her former governess, and then published as a little book by Frederick Warne in 1902. Her anthropomorphized rabbits were an instant hit, and they were followed quickly by tales of Squirrel Nutkin, the tailor of Gloucester, Hunca Munca, et al. She was for a time engaged to be married to her publisher's son, Norman Warne, but he died. Potter went on to achieve self-sufficiency with the purchase of her own Lake Districthome at Sawrey in 1905, and she later settled down to happy married farm life with Anglican barrister William Heelis. Although Lear had access to volumes of diaries and letters, her shaping of Potter's intriguing life is rather blockheaded. Film rights to MGM

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312377960
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 3/4/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 608
  • Sales rank: 240,490
  • Product dimensions: 5.55 (w) x 8.27 (h) x 1.72 (d)

Meet the Author

An environmental historian and biographer, Linda Lear is the author of the prize-winning study, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. A natural history enthusiast and a collector of botanical art, she and her husband tend gardens in Bethesda, MD and Charleston,SC. For more information please visit www.bpotter.com.

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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

Beatrix Potter's Lakeland 1892-1943

BEATRIX POTTER. Copyright © 2007 by Linda Lear. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements     ix
List of Illustrations     xv
Map     xviii
Prologue: Ownership     3
Roots     9
Exposures     25
Transitions     49
Experiments     76
Discoveries     104
Fantasies     130
Ideas     156
Realities     170
Losses     193
Stories     207
Diversions     227
Satisfactions     249
Partnerships     263
Salvages     284
Opportunities     298
Legacies     318
Americans     337
Ventures     357
Passages     381
Challenges     405
Reflections     427
Epilogue: Stewardship     441
Notes     448
Select Bibliography     541
Index     555

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  • Posted May 6, 2010

    MORE THAN PETER RABBIT

    This is a well written, intensely researched biography. Beatrice Potter was very interesting. I did not know all the dimensions of her life and her intense striving. Anyone who enjoys a good, deep, complicated biography will be glad to read this one.

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