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FREE THE BEATRIX POTTER COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE PDF Beatrix Potter | 416 pages | 15 Mar 2014 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | 9781840227239 | English | Herts, United Kingdom A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories by Beatrix Potter - Free Ebook Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake Districtdeveloping a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time. Potter wrote thirty books; the best known being her twenty-three children's tales. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in ; this is a village in the Lake District which, at that time, was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. Inat the The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to design spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. Potter died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in songs, films, ballet and animations, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film. Potter's paternal grandfather, Edmund Potterfrom Glossop in The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume Oneowned what was then the largest calico printing works in England, and later served as a Member of Parliament. Rupert practised law, specialising in equity law and conveyancing. Helen was the daughter The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One Jane Ashton — and John Leech, a wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge. It was reported in July that Beatrix had personally given a number of her own original hand-painted illustrations to the two daughters of Arthur and Harriet Lupton, who The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One cousins to both Beatrix and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. The house was destroyed in the Blitz. Bousfield Primary School now stands where the house once was. A blue plaque on the school building testifies to the former site of The Potter home. Both parents were artistically talented, [9] and Rupert was an adept amateur photographer. Potter's family on both sides were from the Manchester area. It was Annie who later suggested that these letters might make good children's books. She and her younger brother Walter Bertram — grew up with few friends outside their large extended family. Her parents were artistic, interested in nature, and enjoyed the countryside. As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly. In their schoolroom, Beatrix and Bertram kept a variety of small pets, mice, rabbits, a hedgehog and some bats, along with collections of butterflies and other insects which they drew and studied. There she sketched and explored an area that nourished her imagination and her observation. Inwhen Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in the Lake Districtat Wray Castle near Lake Windermere. At about the age of 14, Beatrix began to keep a The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One. It was written in a code of her own devising which was a simple letter for letter substitution. Her Journal was important to the development of her creativity, serving as both sketchbook and literary experiment: in tiny handwriting, she reported on society, recorded her impressions of art and artists, recounted stories and observed life around her. It describes Potter's maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it. Started inher journal ends in when her artistic and intellectual energies were absorbed in scientific study and in efforts to publish her drawings. Beatrix Potter's parents did not discourage higher education. As was common in the Victorian erawomen of her class were privately educated and rarely went to university. Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy. Potter was eclectic The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One her tastes: collecting fossils, [28] studying archaeological artefacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology. In all these areas, she drew and painted her specimens with increasing skill. By the s, her scientific interests centred on mycology. First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them, her interest deepened after meeting Charles McIntosh, a revered naturalist and amateur mycologist, during a summer holiday in Dunkeld in Perthshire in He helped improve the accuracy of her illustrations, taught her taxonomyand supplied her with live specimens to paint during the winter. Curious as to how fungi reproduced, Potter began microscopic drawings of fungus spores the agarics and in developed a theory of their germination. Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyerthe Director at Kew, because of her sex and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper, On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineaeto the Linnean Society in It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper. She subsequently withdrew it, realising that some of her samples were contaminated, but continued her microscopic studies for several more years. Her paper has only recently been rediscovered, along with the rich, artistic illustrations and drawings that accompanied it. Her work is only now being properly evaluated. Inthe mycologist W. Potter's artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy. She was a student of the classic fairy tales of Western Europe. In her teenage years, Potter was a regular visitor to the art galleries of London, particularly enjoying the summer and winter exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London. Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own. As a way to earn money in the s, Beatrix and her brother began to print Christmas cards of their own design, as well as cards for special occasions. Mice and rabbits were the most frequent subject of her fantasy paintings. Inthe firm of Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought several of the drawings of her rabbit Benjamin Bunny to illustrate verses by Frederic Weatherly titled A Happy Pair. Inthe same printer bought several more drawings for Weatherly's Our Dear Relationsanother book of rhymes, and the following year Potter sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Picturesa popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister. Potter was pleased by this success and determined to publish her own illustrated stories. Whenever Potter went on holiday to the Lake District or Scotlandshe sent letters to young friends, illustrating them with quick sketches. Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to Moore's eldest son Noel who was often ill. She had run out of things to say to Noel, and so she told him a story about "four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter". It became one of the most famous children's letters ever written and the basis of Potter's future career as a writer-artist-storyteller. InPotter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it — it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman 's bestseller The The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One of Little Black Sambo. It was drawn in black and white with a coloured frontispiece. Rawnsley had great faith in Potter's tale, recast it in didactic verse, and made the rounds of the London publishing houses. Leslie Brooke. It was followed The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One next year by The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and The Tailor of Gloucesterwhich had also first been written as picture letters to The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One Moore children. Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year: 23 books in all. The last book in this format was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes ina collection of favourite rhymes. Although The Tale of Little Pig Robinson was not published untilit had been written much earlier. Potter continued creating her little books until after the First World War when her energies were increasingly directed toward her farming, sheep-breeding and land conservation. The immense popularity of Potter's books was based on the lively quality of her The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters. Potter was also a canny businesswoman.