Beatrix Potter1866–1943Monk Coniston moor
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Beatrix Potter 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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Beatrix Potter enjoyed sketching the British landscape in all seasons. She first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years the family spent many of their summers there. She cemented her connection to the area by purchasing Hill Top, a house by her favourite lake, Esthwaite Water, in 1905, but it was not until her marriage to Lakeland solicitor William Heelis in 1913 that the Lake District became her permanent home. Potter made this study over Monk Coniston Moor on a misty day in 1909. Many years later, in 1930, she purchased the 5000-acre Monk Coniston Estate in order to preserve it; like the rest of Potter's land the estate eventually went to the National Trust.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Nel frattempo, nella vita di Beatrix Potter
Tutta la vita1903–1922
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.
1905–1909
Learning to farm: a tenant, sheep and Castle Farm
The tenant farmer John Cannon and his family stayed on to run the farm while Beatrix made improvements and learned the techniques of fell farming and livestock; the following year she added sheep. To protect her boundaries she turned to the Hawkshead solicitors W. H. Heelis & Son and, with William Heelis acting for her, bought adjoining pasture — in 1909 the 20 acres of Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top.
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