Beatrix Potter1866–1943Watercolour
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This is a detailed variant illustration of the two pigs, Pigling Bland and his brother Alexander, heading off to market by Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). The frontispiece in the final published tale, The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913) is very similar but the pig on the left has a brown waistcoat and the other a paler green one. They are both larger and their expressions less jovial in the published illustration, and the gate only partly visible, the background unfocussed (Hobbs: 1999).
The location depicted is behind Hill Top farm, Near Sawrey, where Potter and William Heelis often walked during their courtship. It is still recognisable today with the distinctive gate and signpost. Potter’s work has helped to ensure that the village of Near Sawrey, where a large number of her stories are set, has become a conservation village.
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three original Peter Rabbit books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale
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Imens i livet hos Beatrix Potter
Hele livet1903–1922
Two or three books a year with the editor Norman Warne
“The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin” and “The Tailor of Gloucester” followed “Peter Rabbit” in 1903 — both also began as picture letters to the Moore children. Working with the editor Norman Warne, Beatrix published two or three little books a year — 23 in all in that format, the last, in 1922, being “Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes”; the royalties gave her a degree of independence, though she still lived with her parents.
1905–1913 · Uddannelse
governance
summer 1912
William Heelis proposes
By the summer of 1912 William Heelis, the solicitor with whom Beatrix handled the affairs of her farms, had proposed and she had accepted; she did not tell her parents at once, and they again disapproved, since Heelis was only a country solicitor.
15 October 1913
Marriage to William Heelis and the move to Near Sawrey
On 15 October 1913, at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, the 47-year-old Beatrix married William Heelis and moved with him straight to Near Sawrey, to Castle Cottage, the renovated farmhouse on Castle Farm. Hill Top remained a working farm but was remodelled to house the tenant family and her private studio and workshop.
c. 15.10.1913
Married: William Heelis
1914
Her father’s death, and her mother’s move to the Lake District
In 1914 Beatrix’s father, Rupert Potter, died; with the outbreak of the First World War she persuaded her widowed mother to move to the Lake District and rented her a house in Sawrey, from which she soon moved to Lindeth Howe in Bowness. Beatrix herself kept writing for Warne and threw herself into country life: she set up a nursing trust (for district nurses) for the surrounding villages and sat on committees dealing with footpaths and other rural matters.
