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Toni Prothero's avatar

Thank you for this post on Beatrix Potter! Just have to mention and recommend the series by Susan Wittig Albert called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. There are eight books in the series in which Beatrix solves mysteries with help from her animal friends. There are eight books. All are delightful and set in the Lake District around Hilltop Farm. Highly recommended!

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Priya Ramchandran's avatar

Great post! You bring her to life 🧡

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Mary B's avatar

Beatrix's sketchbook looks amazing, as are your sketches, especially the sheep. I love them. I also love that you researched her before visiting - adds a depth to the visit of an historical place, I think. I What an interesting woman and hurrah for her for leaving property and sheep to the National Trust. What a gal. Great post, Amy.

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Cathy Schumaker Tyler's avatar

I'm glad you enjoyed your jaunt thru the Lake Country, and I enjoyed your newsletter on Beatrix Potter! I love her Peter Rabbit books, and naturalist drawings, and have particularly enjoyed a 'reproduction' of her journal from 1882, when she was 16, to 1909 when she met her future husband: Beatrix Potter A Journal, published in 2006. Another book, copyrighted 2013, Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life, introduced me to her favorite plants and places. I've always been interested in children's literature and occasionally come across copies of Peter Rabbit-like stories in older anthologies, without attribution to Beatrix Potter, or any indication of copyright. Which is how I learned some of the early history of that practice. We're fortunate as artists and writers that the concept and global reach of copyright eventually evolved into the much more protective laws we have today.

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Colette's avatar

Beatrix Potter is my hero! Thank you for sharing her story.

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Paige Morrow's avatar

Love this !

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Scrantz Studio 37's avatar

Thanks to your idea, I'm doing an "artist residency" in the Bay of Naples area for 2 weeks. How can I post my drawings here?

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Terry Wagner's avatar

Beatrix Potter to Jeff VanderMeer: Amy, your range never ceases to amaze! Looking forward to Powell's on the 24th.

Terry

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CatherineBsketches's avatar

Loved this. I’ve been to hilltop a few times and love Beatrix Potter’s work. I am sure it was an influence in the style I have developed. Miss Potter is a great film 👏

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Adrienne Mason's avatar

Loved this. The bio by Linda Lear—Beatrix Potter: a Life in Nature—is fabulous.

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JustAnAverageDude's avatar

I really enjoyed the background on Beatrix. Thank you for that.

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Tina Koyama's avatar

Thank you for that mini biography of Potter! I have always loved her books, of course, but knew nothing of her life. I guess I had a vague idea that she was somehow independently wealthy and could write and illustrate children's books in her ample leisure time. Instead, she turns out to be more like the rest of us: Hard working, with varied interests, resourceful enough to figure out how to get what she wanted, and brave enough to pursue it. And in her case, she had to buck the trend of what society (and her parents) decided she should be doing with her life. Brava, Beatrix!

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Robyn Ryle's avatar

This is fascinating and there's something so satisfying about this woman who wrote cuddly children books doing it almost exclusively for the money and to buy her own independence. A good reminder that money is always a means to an end, whatever that end may be for you.

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