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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 . 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 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 . 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 . 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 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 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. As early asshe made and patented a Peter Rabbit doll. It was followed by other "spin-off" merchandise over the years, including painting books, board games, wall-paper, figurines, baby blankets and china tea-sets. InPotter and Norman Warne became unofficially engaged. Potter's parents objected to the match because Warne was "in trade" and thus not socially suitable. The engagement lasted only one month until Warne died of pernicious anaemia at age Potter and Warne may have hoped that Hill Top Farm would be their holiday home, but after Warne's death, Potter went ahead with its purchase as she had always wanted to own that farm, and live in "that charming village". The tenant farmer John Cannon and his family agreed to stay on to manage the farm for her while she made physical The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One and learned the techniques of fell farming and of raising livestock, including pigs, cows and chickens; the following year she added sheep. Realising she needed to protect her boundaries, she sought advice from W. With William Heelis acting for her, she bought contiguous pasture, and in the 20 acres 8. Tittlemousea wood mouse reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living. Owning and managing these working farms required routine collaboration with the widely respected William Heelis. The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One the summer ofHeelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted; although she did not immediately tell her parents, who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor. The couple moved immediately to Near Sawreyresiding at Castle Cottage, the renovated farmhouse on Castle Farm, which was 34 The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One large. Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter's private studio and workshop. At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life. Rupert Potter died in and, with the outbreak of World War IPotter, now a wealthy woman, persuaded her mother to move to the Lake District and found a The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One for her to rent in Sawrey. She The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One a Nursing Trust for local villages and served on various committees and councils responsible for footpaths and other rural issues. Soon after acquiring Hill Top Farm, Potter became keenly The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One in the breeding and raising of Herdwick sheepthe indigenous fell sheep. In she bought a large sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farmformerly a deer park, restoring its land with thousands of Herdwick sheep. This established her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the county. She was admired by her shepherds and farm The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One for her willingness to experiment with the latest biological remedies for the common diseases of sheep, and for her employment of the best shepherds, sheep breeders, and farm managers. By the late s, Potter and her Hill Top farm manager Tom Storey had made a name for their prize-winning Herdwick flock, which took many prizes at the local agricultural shows, where Potter was often asked to serve as a judge. In she became President-elect of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association, the first time a woman had been elected but died before taking office. Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsleythe first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. She supported the efforts of the National Trust to preserve not just the places of extraordinary beauty but also those heads of valleys and low grazing lands that would be irreparably ruined by development. The Beatrix Potter Collection Volume One : Beatrix Potter :

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Beatrix Potter Collectionplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Beatrix Potter Collection. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 06, Eric The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One rated it really liked it. This was The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One a nostalgic and a hilarious and quick read, really enjoyed it. Jan 08, Kimberley doruyter rated it it was amazing. Aug 16, Eduard Gafton rated it liked it Shelves: childrensclassicschildrens-picture-booksThe Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One For a separate rating and for the few phrases that can barely qualify as a review, please check each individual book. As for the Wordsworth Volume, I have but only one major complaint. The The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One are not in colour. This is well justified as the price of the volume is roughly that of four American dollars, which is basically a This volume contains 13 of the 23 works containing both and that together make up The Beatrix Potter Collection. This is well justified as the price of the volume The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One roughly that of four American dollars, which is basically a steal. Can I recommend this volume? My answer depends on what you are looking for. If you are yet to experience the world of Peter Rabbit and Friends this could be a great and extremely affordable start. But if you are a Beatrix Potter super fan or you'd want the best package that you could possibly get, then I suggest you look someplace else. Aug 08, Carol rated it really liked it. These stories are absolutely adorable. They are just cute, about animals in the countryside. Nothing more complicated than a lost animal once in a while. Half of them are about mischievous bunnies The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One cats, like Peter Rabbit, and other stories of ducks or frogs, and it's a very quick read, something simple and enjoyable to read on a quiet and lazy afternoon. Jul 22, Jana rated it really liked it Shelves:own-read. Feb 22, Loren Johnson rated it really liked it The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One childrens. Apr 07, Orlaya rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-or-series-i-recommendto-re-read. All the stories are SO weird and I absolutely love them all! May 08, Omaira rated it really liked it Shelves: favoritos. Mar 15, Tsippora rated it really liked it. Such cute stories with the original drawings! Dec 15, Lisa rated it it was amazing. The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One 15, Naomi rated it it was ok Shelves: readclassics. The other 11 stories were completely new to me. I didn't enjoy the stories as much as I thought I would, the stories sometimes were quite harsh compared to stories from now I mean what modern children story casually mentions giving away your children or whipping them? Aug 17, Afifah rated it really liked it Shelves: owned I think I might get some of those individual stories with colored images just because I enjoy them so much :D. Apr 22, Ratih Cahaya rated it liked it. Ceritanya lucu-lucu, dilengkapi ilustrasi walaupun hitam putihdan ukuran font-nya cukup besar jadi nggak bikin sakit mata. Tetapi karena edisi bahasa inggris dan ini adalah karya klasik, banyak kosakata yang benar-benar 'asing' bagi saya. Aug 09, Marlieke rated it really liked it. Nice and easy read. Love the pictures. Apr 26, Dimitri rated it it was amazing. What a wonderful animal world! It's simplicity warms the heart and makes you love them all the more and sparkle the desire to join this magical world where animals speak and enjoy their daily lives! Nov 03, Sherry Heather rated it really liked it. Like this one better than the second volume. The stories are sweeter. Sep 24, Aileen rated it it was amazing Shelves: librarychild-read. Missed out on as a child which is a shame as I absolutely loved this collection. Dec 15, Shelly Mason rated it really liked it. Not The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One of these tales are sweetness and light. But still a great collection. Jan 27, Katie rated it really liked it. A delightful book. Buat Masa kecil ku yg biasanya cuman baca timun mas atau kancil nyolong timun, cerita anak eropa ini refreshing hehe. Feb 02, Eilis O sullivan rated it it was amazing. What a fantastic collection. It The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One nice to be able to read the Beatrix Potter stories in one book without having to resort to a large hefty volume. All of the different illustrations are included and the font is sufficiently large for reading in bedtime stories. The only draw back, but not enough to really bother me, was that none of the illustrations were coloured as the would have been in the original versions. Overall though a nice little edition if you want to read a What a fantastic collection. The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One though a nice little edition if you want to read The Tale of Peter Rabbit and co. Jan 04, Tanya rated it it was amazing. Where Mr Pricklepin has real problems, Peter and his siblings often get in trouble and lavender is called "rabbit tobacco" :. Dec 05, Anita rated it it was amazing Shelves: children-s-bookslit-en. Without any hesitation, I can say that Beatrix Potter was an immensely talented woman. Her illustrations are funny and beautiful, her stories are lovely. The stories contained in this first volume of the collection were varied and charming. They were also written with children of different ages in mind, which makes this book very useful for parents. Since I can't seem to gather a few objective ideas for this review, I will end it by saying that I am glad all Miss Potter's stories were gathered in Without any hesitation, I can say that Beatrix Potter was an immensely talented woman. Since I can't seem to gather a few objective ideas for this review, I will end it by saying that I am glad all Miss Potter's stories were gathered in two volumes so that even adults who have no children, like myself, can enjoy reading them whenever they want. Mar 21, Kristina rated it really liked it. Such a cute little book! Beatrix writing style is so lovely, yet sophisticated in a way. If I have to be completely honest, I even learned a few words from the stories : Her characters are so well made and described, not to mention how cute they are! My absolute favourite will be the mice! The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One by Beatrix Potter

The collection of close to items has been placed on deposit as an intended gift to the University from Lloyd Cotsen, a member of Princeton's class of and a longtime collector of children's literature. Cotsen donated the funds to create the children's library, which opened in Firestone in In an essay for the collection's lavishly illustrated catalog, Judy Taylor, an expert on Potter, wrote, "There are many people in many places who now collect her work, but Lloyd Cotsen's Beatrix Potter Collection ranks as probably the best private assemblage outside any major public museum or library. Other letters that Potter wrote to children tell of frogs who go fishing and pigs who sail on ships. She annotated the stories with vivid pen and ink sketches. One of the most remarkable elements of the Potter collection are 30 illustrated letters the author wrote to children of her acquaintance. The letters tell of frogs who go fishing and pigs who sail on ships, and Potter annotated the stories with vivid pen and ink sketches. Several of the characters that originated in the letters later appeared in her books. The collection also includes dozens of photographs of Potter, who was born in London inas a girl and a young woman. The beguiling portraits show Potter holding her pet dormouse, Xarifa, who appeared in the book "," or her hare, Benjamin Bunny, the model for the character in the little book of the same name. Tom Kitten, for example, went up the chimney exploring and was captured by the wicked old rat Samuel Whiskers and his wife, Anna Maria, who nearly succeeded in making him into a pudding for their dinner. To celebrate the arrival of the collection in Princeton and the publication of the The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One, the library has mounted an exhibition titled "Don't Go Into Mr. Jeremy Fisher," as well as other Victorian picture books that Potter admired and that may have influenced her work. The exhibition will be on view until the end of February. Those who visit the exhibition can pick up a complimentary copy of "Nip and the Chocolate," a small publication by Cotsen that reproduces for the first time an illustrated letter that Beatrix Potter wrote in about a dog who loved sweets. Visitors to the Beatrix Potter exhibition at Cotsen Children's Library can pick up a complimentary copy of "Nip and the Chocolate," a small publication that reproduces for the first time an The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One letter Beatrix Potter wrote in about a dog who loved sweets. The library exhibition, on view until the end of February, The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One several of Potter's little books, including "The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher" shown above. Current news, events Releases to the media Weekly Bulletin Calendar of The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One Previous caption pages. Library showcases Beatrix Potter collection by Jennifer Greenstein Altmann An extensive collection of books, letters, manuscripts and artwork by Beatrix Potter, the author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and other books adored by generations of children, has been presented to Princeton's Cotsen Children's Library. Current news, events Releases to the media Weekly Bulletin Calendar of events Previous caption pages To celebrate The Beatrix Potter Collection: Volume One arrival of the collection in Princeton and the publication of the catalog, the library has mounted an exhibition titled "Don't Go Into Mr.