Beatrix Potter Books
Since “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” that was first published in 1902, Beatrix Potter Books are renowned as possibly the most famous children’s books ever written. The Beatrix Potter collection consists of 23 and will always be remembered with affection by millions of readers.
It’s been over a 100 years since the first Beatrix Potter stories were picked up from the book shelves and in another 100 years they will still be read by people finding the magic of Beatrix Potter for the first time.
Whatever Beatrix Potter Books are your favorite, you need never stray away from here to find them.
Beatrix Potter was born in South Kensington,London on the 28th July 1866. She lived a solitary life at home, and she was taught by a governess and had very little contact with the outside world. She loved animals and had many pets that she spent long hours studying and sketching.
She lived with her parents and rented a house in Scotland, For three months at a time in the summer holidays, but then the house became unavailable to rent, so instead rented a house in the Lake District it was called Wray Castle near Ambleside. Beatrix was 16 years of age when they first stayed here. There were many distinguished guests whom her parents entertained, including the vicar of Wray Church Hardwicke Rawnsley who became the founder of the National Trust in 1895.
Beatrix loved the natural unspoilt beauty surrounding the holiday home in the Lake District,they holidayed there on and off, for the next 21 years,staying at Wray Castle,Fawe Park,Hole Hird and many times at Lingholm by Derwentwater,renowned for it’s Rhododendrum Gardens, beatrix loved it there, exploring the wild life behind Lingholm called ‘Catbells’ which is a fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria. It has a modest height of 451 metres (1480 ft). She watched the rabbits in the vegetable garden,and saw the squirrels in the woods, she also made sketches of the picturesque landscape.
Rev. Rawnsley still kept in contact,as he moved away from Wray church after 5 years, and settled in Crosthwaite Church,outside Keswick
The Tale Of Peter Rabbit
Rev. Rawnsley encouraged her to publish her book, which she started back in London, she also made greeting cards of her pictures, her book was eventually published in 1902 by Frederick Warne called “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”. In her Third book “Squirrel Nutkin” she based her views on Derwentwater, Newlands Valley and Catbells, and Fawe Park was featured in her book called “The Tale of Benjamin Bunny”.
Beatrix bought a field in Near Sawrey in 1903, not far from where they had holidayed that year. As her book “Peter Rabbit” had sold some 50000 copies, she was bringing in a very good income, which enabled her to buy a little farm in Sawrey named “Hill Top” she was very busy writing books for the next eight years also fitting in time to visit her farm. She bought yet another farm in 1909 opposite “Hill Top” which was called “Castle Farm” where she seemed to spend most of her time writing, seven of her books are written about Hill Top in which Samuel Whiskers and Tom Kitten lived there. Hill Top is still the same as it was then, and is the most visited Literary Shrine in the Lake District.
In 1913, Beatrix Potter married William Heelis, who was a solicitor in Hawkshead, for the next 30 years she became a Lakeland farmer, and her Husband William Heelis’s office became the National Trust’s Beatrix Potter Gallery.
Beatrix bought Troutbeck Park Farm in 1923, and became a breeding Herdwick sheep expert, winning numerous prizes at country shows, in 1930 she continued buying property including the Monk Coniston Estate it was 4000 acres from Little Langdale to Coniston – containing a picturesque tarn which is now Lakelands popular piece of landscape.
Beatrix Potter died in 1943 on 22nd December she donated many of her watercolours and drawings of fungi, mosses and fossils to the Armitt Library in Ambleside. she was the first woman to be elected as president-designate of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders Association, she left her land and 14 farms to the National Trust, with a total holding of 25000 sheep. It was her gift to the nation, her love of the country for everyone to enjoy, which even continues today…….
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