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  CHAPTER 1

  1Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter, From 1881 to 1897, transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder (Frederick Warne & Co., London 1966 ; revised edition, 1989), May 1890, p. 212.

  2BPJ, 12 October 1892, p. 289 ; Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 22 May 1902, Beatrix Potter’s Letters, selected and introduced by Judy Taylor (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1989), p. 62.

  3BPJ, 8 February 1884, p. 67.

  4Beatrix Potter to Eleanor Rawnsley, 21 October 1934, BPL, p. 366.

  5Survey of London, vol. 41, Brompton, ed. F. H. W. Sheppard (London County Council, London, 1983), pp. 195–202.

  6BPJ, 31 October 1882, p. 25.

  7BPJ, 30 January 1884, p. 67.

  8BPJ, 23 April 1883, p. 39.

  9BPJ, 28 July 1892, p. 248.

  10Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 20 April 1904, BPL, p. 93.

  11Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in White (repr Penguin Classics, London, 2003), p. 483.

  12Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 272 ; and Beatrix Potter to John Stone, 5 June 1940, BPL, p. 416.

  13BPJ, 31 October 1882, p. 25.

  14Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 2 May 1923, The Choyce Letters, ed. Judy Taylor (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1994), p. 26.

  15Beatrix Potter’s Americans : Selected Letters, ed. Jane Crowell Morse (Horn Book, Boston, 1982), p. 213.

  16BPJ, 19 May 1884, p. 87 ; 9 October 1885, p. 158.

  17BPJ, 19 May 1883, p. 46.

  18Lane, Margaret, The Tale of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1946, repr 1985), p. 46.

  19Beatrix Potter’s Americans, p. 208.

  20Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter : Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1986), p. 20.

  21Potter, Beatrix, The Fairy Caravan (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1929, repr 1986), p. 83.

  22BPJ, 16 July 1884, p. 100.

  23Beatrix Potter to Marian Frazer Harris Perry, 4 October 1934, BPL, p. 365 ; Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 37.

  24BPJ, 3 March 1883, p. 32.

  25BPJ, 3 November 1885, p. 159.

  26BPJ, 19 July 1884, p. 102 ; BPJ, 12 February 1886, p. 182.

  27BPJ, 29 August 1894, p. 341.

  28BPJ, 7 September 1885, p. 156.

  29Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 18 February 1904, BPL, p. 86.

  30Potter, Beatrix, Memories of Camfield Place (c.1891), BPJ, p. 446.

  31Roberts, Ronald, ‘The “cross old nurse”’, The Beatrix Potter Society Journal and Newsletter 136 (April 2015), p. 15.

  32BPJ, 5 June 1891, p. 215.

  33Lane, Margaret, op. cit., p. 31.

  34Carpenter, Humphrey, Secret Gardens : A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (Allen & Unwin, London, 1985), p. 143.

  35BPJ, 14 December 1895, p. 411.

  36Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 423.

  37Beatrix Potter, 20 August 1905, Beatrix Potter : A Holiday Diary, ed. Judy Taylor (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1996), pp. 49–50.

  38Memories of Camfield Place, BPJ, p. 448.

  39Taylor, Judy, Whalley, Joyce Irene, et al., Beatrix Potter 1866–1943 : The Artist and Her World (Frederick Warne & Co. with the National Trust, London, 1987), p. 61.

  40See The Tale of the Faithful Dove, p. 11.

  41Beatrix Potter to Henry P. Coolidge, see Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 213.

  42Taylor, Judy, op. cit. (BP : A, S & C), p. 82.

  43Memories of Camfield Place, BPJ, p. 446.

  44Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 272.

  45Beatrix Potter to Caroline Clark, 19 December 1933, BPL, p. 360.

  46Beatrix Potter to Marian Frazer Harris Perry, 4 October 1934, BPL, p. 365.

  CHAPTER 2

  1BPJ, 19 March 1884, p. 76.

  2Norman, Andrew, Beatrix Potter Her Inner World (Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, 2014), p. 24.

  3BPJ, 5 June 1891, p. 216.

  4BPJ, 19 January 1884, p. 63.

  5Haining, Peter, Movable Books (New English Library, London, 1979), pp. 30–31.

  6Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 20 November 1911, BPL, p. 189 ; Lane, Margaret, The Tale of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1946, repr 1985), p. 65.

  7Beatrix Potter to Helen Dean Fish, 8 December 1934, BPL, p. 369 ; Taylor, Judy, Whalley, Joyce Irene, et al., Beatrix Potter 1866–1943 : The Artist and Her World (Frederick Warne & Co. with the National Trust, London, 1987), p. 45.

  8Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter : Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1986), p. 19.

  9Molesworth, Mary Louisa (‘Mrs’), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), see Chapter 5.

  10BPJ, 11 October 1895.

  11Beatrix Potter to Marjorie Moore, 13 March 1900, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 66.

  12Carpenter, Humphrey, Secret Gardens : A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (Allen & Unwin, London, 1985), p. 143.

  13Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 20 August 1909, BPL, p. 170.

  14Beatrix Potter to Marian Frazer Harris Perry, 4 October 1934, BPL, p. 365.

  15Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 21.

  16Beatrix Potter to Mrs Ramsay Duff, 13 July 1943, Beatrix Potter’s Americans : Selected Letters, ed. Jane Crowell Morse (Horn Book, Boston, 1982).

  17BPJ, 10 September 1895, p. 401.

  18Taylor, Judy, (BP A S &C) op. cit., p. 21 ; BPJ, 19 May 1884, p. 87.

  19BPJ, 9 April 1895, p. 374.

  20BPJ, 8 May 1884, p. 85.

  21BPJ, 12 September 1892, p. 267.

  22Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 25.

  23Carpenter, Humphrey, op. cit., p. 141.

  24BPJ, 17 March 1893, p. 317.

  25BPJ, 31 March 1892, p. 221.

  26BPJ, 8 May 1884, p. 85.

  27Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 279.

  28BPJ, 14 June 1884, p. 94.

  29Taylor, Whalley, et al., op. cit., p. 79 ; BPJ, 28 July 1896, p. 427.

  30BPJ, 28 March 1884, p. 79 ; BPJ, 17 November 1896, p. 435.

  31Beatrix Potter to Lady Warren, 23 December 1919, BPL, p. 260.

  32Memories of Camfield Place, BPJ, p. 447.

  33Ibid.

  34BPJ, December 1886, p. 201.

  35Memories of Camfield Place, BPJ, p. 448.

  36Potter, Beatrix, The Fairy Caravan (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1929, repr 1986), p. 53.

  37Beatrix Potter to Mr D. M. Matheson, 17 October 1939, BPL, p. 410.

  38Memories of Camfield Place, BPJ, p. 444.

  39Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 28.

  40BPJ, 19 February 1885, p. 131.

  41Memories of Camfield Place, BPJ, p. 444.

  42BPJ, 28 May 1895, p. 384.

  43BPJ, 11 November 1884, p. 115.

  44BPJ, 2 July 1884, p. 96.

  45BPJ, 23 February 1886, p. 188.

  46Beatrix Potter to Caroline Clark, 15 February 1937, BPL, p. 384.

  47Beatrix Potter to Henry P. Coolidge, 27 October 1929, BPL, p. 322.

  48BPJ, late May 1887, p. 204.

  49BPJ, 10 July 1885 ; Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, 28 February 1919, BPL, p. 254

  50Beatrix Potter to Denys Lowson, 3 October 1916, BPL, p. 228.

  51BPJ, 28 May 1883, p. 47.

  52BPJ, 4 October 1884, p. 109.

  CHAPTER 3

  1BPJ, 10 June 1882, pp. 17–19.

  2Taylor, Judy, Whalley, Joyce Irene, et al., Beatrix Potter 1866–1943 : The Artist and Her World (Frederick Warne & Co. with the National Trust, London, 1987), p. 74.

  3BPJ, 2 August 1883, p. 50.

  4Ibid., p. 51.

  5Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter
: A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 371.

  6Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, 5 August 1921, BPL, p. 271 ; Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 273.

  7Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 273.

  8BPJ, 28 July 1883, p. 49.

  9BPJ, 19 May 1883, p. 46.

  10BPJ, 18 October 1892, p. 295.

  11BPJ, 24 August 1895, p. 398.

  12Lane, Margaret, The Tale of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1946, repr 1985), p. 40 ; Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 2 November 1904, BPL, p. 106.

  13Taylor, Whalley, op. cit., p. 92.

  14BPJ, June 1894, p. 319.

  15Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 7 December 1904, BPL, p. 110.

  16BPJ, 2 May 1883, p. 44.

  17BPJ, 7 March 1886, p. 192.

  18Ibid.

  19Beatrix Potter to Arthur Stephens, 7 February 1943, BPL, p. 455 ; Beatrix Potter to Janet Adam Smith, 8 February 1943, BPL, p. 456 ; Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 13 December 1911, BPL, p. 192.

  20BPJ, 3 April 1886, p. 196.

  21Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 272.

  22BPJ, 30 January 1884, p. 66.

  23Beatrix Potter to Elizabeth Hadfield, 28 January 1910, BPL, p. 184.

  24Beatrix Potter to Eileen Rowson, 6 March 1919, BPL, p. 256.

  25BPJ, 7 March 1886, p. 193.

  26Taylor, Whalley, op. cit., p. 79.

  27BPJ, 19 November 1884, p. 117.

  28BPJ, 9 February 1884, p. 68.

  29Lane, Margaret, op. cit., p. 45.

  30Taylor, Whalley, op. cit., p. 77.

  31Beatrix Potter, draft letter to newspaper (unpublished), November 1911, BPL, p. 191.

  32BPJ, 20 September 1883, p. 54.

  33Taylor, Whalley, op. cit., p. 77.

  34Ibid., p. 69.

  35BPJ, 8 December 1883, p. 59.

  36Beatrix Potter to Eileen Rowson, 6 March 1919, BPL, p. 255.

  37Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 12 November 1904, BPL, p. 107.

  38Beatrix Potter to Eileen Rowson, 6 March 1919, BPL, p. 255.

  39Lane, Margaret, op. cit., p. 51.

  40Beatrix Potter to Miss Wyatt, 27 November 1920, BPL, p. 266.

  41Ibid.

  42Beatrix Potter to William Warner, 11 August 1908, private collection.

  43BPJ, December 1886, p. 202.

  44Potter, Beatrix, The Fairy Caravan (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1929, repr 1986), p. 28.

  45Beatrix Potter to ‘Dulcie’, 16 November 1923, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 182.

  46Beatrix Potter to Mrs M. C. Grimston, 12 February 1938, BPL, p. 386.

  47BPJ, May 1890, p. 212.

  48Beatrix Potter to Mrs M. C. Grimston, 12 February 1938, BPL, p. 386.

  49Ibid.

  50Taylor, Whalley, et al., op. cit., p. 96.

  51Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 422.

  52Beatrix Potter to Walter Gaddum, 6 March 1897, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter, op. cit., p. 100.

  53Lane, Margaret, op. cit., p. 50.

  54Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter : Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1986), p. 80.

  55Taylor, Whalley, et al., op. cit., p. 77.

  56Lane, Margaret, op. cit., p. 50.

  57Ibid.

  58Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, p. 84.

  59Taylor, Whalley, et al., op. cit., p. 71.

  60Ibid., p. 77.

  61BPJ, 20 April 1884, p. 82.

  62BPJ, 10 July 1885, p. 154.

  63BPJ, 8 May 1884, p. 85.

  64BPJ, May 1890, p. 213.

  65Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore, 4 February 1895, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 28.

  66BPJ, 26 July 1892, p. 246 ; see packing list, BPJ, March 1889, p. 209.

  67Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 7.

  68Lane, Margaret, op. cit., p. 38.

  69Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 12 February 1904, BPL, p. 85.

  70BPJ, 21 July 1882, p. 21.

  71Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, ?September 1903, BPL, p. 81 ; see also Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 20 October 1904, BPL, p. 104.

  72Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 17 September 1943, The Choyce Letters, ed. Judy Taylor (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1994), p. 75.

  73BPJ, 10 June 1884, p. 93.

  74BPJ, 21 July 1882, p. 20.

  75BPJ, 8 May 1884, p. 84.

  76BPJ, 19 May 1884, p. 87.

  77BPJ, 27 May 1884, p. 89.

  CHAPTER 4

  1BPJ, December 1886, p. 201.

  2BPJ, April to May 1887, pp. 203–204.

  3BPJ, 18 August 1896, p. 429.

  4BPJ, 22 February 1883, p. 31.

  5BPJ, late December 1883, p. 61.

  6BPJ, 21 to 25 May 1883, p. 47.

  7BPJ, 29 April 1884, p. 83.

  8Caroline Clark (née Hutton), 1956, quoted in BPJ, p. 319n.

  9BPJ, 6 May 1885, p. 146.

  10BPJ, 28 March 1885, pp. 143–4 ; 7 September 1885, p. 156.

  11BPJ, 28 March 1885, p. 143.

  12BPJ, 29 May 1885, p. 149.

  13BPJ, p. xvii.

  14BPJ, 22 February 1884, p. 71.

  15BPJ, 12 October 1884, p. 109.

  16BPJ, 8 August 1883, p. 51.

  17BPJ, June 1894, p. 321.

  18BPJ, 30 April 1883, p. 43.

  19BPJ, 10 June 1882, p. 18.

  20BPJ, 19 March 1884, p. 78.

  21Ibid., p. 77.

  22BPJ, 7 September 1885, p. 156.

  23BPJ, 13 October 1885, p. 158.

  24BPJ, 7 September 1885, p. 156.

  25BPJ, 25 April 1883, p. 39.

  26Ibid.

  27Ibid.

  28Ibid.

  29Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 22 May 1902, BPL, p. 62.

  30BPJ, May 1890, p. 212.

  31BPJ, 24 April 1884, p. 83.

  32BPJ, 9 November 1885, p. 160.

  33BPJ, May 1890, p. 213.

  34BPJ, 6 November 1894, p. 365.

  35Beatrix Potter to Freda Moore, 14 June 1897, BPL, p. 43.

  36Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 442.

  37BPJ, 28 July 1883, p. 49.

  38Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 136.

  39BPJ, 13 December 1884, p. 122.

  40BPJ, 24 November 1883, p. 58.

  41BPJ, 29 April 1884, p. 83.

  42BPJ, 25 June 1884, p. 94.

  43BPJ, 28 November 1884, p. 120.

  44BPJ, 4 October 1884, p. 109.

  45Ibid.

  46BPJ, 28 November 1884, p. 121.

  47BPJ, 21 November 1883, p. 57.

  48BPJ, 24 November 1883, p. 58.

  49BPJ, 27 October 1884, p. 110.

  50BPJ, 14 March 1884, p. 74.

  51BPJ, 28 May 1883, p. 47.

  52BPJ, 31 December 1885, p. 168.

  53BPJ, April 1892, p. 244.

  54BPJ, May 1890, p. 212.

  55BPJ, May 1890, p. 214.

  56Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 74.

  CHAPTER 5

  1Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore, 4 September 1893, BPL, p. 26.

  2Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 422.

  3BPJ, 21 August 1892, pp. 256–7.

  4Beatrix Potter to Janet Adam Smith, 8 February 1943, BPL, p. 456.

  5Beatrix Potter to Josephine Banner, 28 February 1938, BPL, p. 387.

  6Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 423.

  7Beatrix Potter to Marian Frazer Harris Perry, 4 October 1934, BPL, p. 365.

  8BPJ, 19 February 1885, p. 131.

  9BPJ, 29 July 1894, p. 330.

  10Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 422.

  11BPJ, 11 November 1895, p. 409.

 
; 12BPJ, 3 October 1892, p. 278.

  13BPJ, 20 August 1896, p. 430.

  14BPJ, 17 November 1896, p. 435.

  15BPJ, mid-April 1896, p. 421.

  16BPJ, 10 October 1894, p. 364.

  17Linder, Leslie & Enid, The Art of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1975), p. 274.

  18BPJ, 25 September 1894, p. 354.

  19Beatrix Potter to Walter Gaddum, 6 March 1897, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 100.

  20BPJ, 18 August 1894, p. 337.

  21BPJ, 23 July 1896, p. 426.

  22BPJ, 18 August 1894, pp. 337–8.

  23Taylor, Judy, Whalley, Joyce Irene, et al., Beatrix Potter 1866–1943 : The Artist and Her World (Frederick Warne & Co. with the National Trust, London, 1987), p. 91.

  24BPJ, 2 October 1894, p. 357.

  25BPJ, 29 October 1892, p. 306.

  26Ibid., p. 305.

  27Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 87.

  28Beatrix Potter to Charles McIntosh, 10 December 1892, BPL, p. 18.

  29Beatrix Potter to Charles McIntosh, ?1893, BPL, p. 19.

  30Beatrix Potter to Walter Gaddum, 6 March 1897, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 100.

  31Beatrix Potter to Charles McIntosh, 12 January 1897, BPL, p. 39.

  32BPJ, 7 December 1896, p. 438.

  33Ibid.

  34BPJ, 11 December 1896, p. 439 ; also see BPJ, entries January 9 to 31, 1897, pp. 441–443.

  35Price, John, Everyday Heroism : Victorian Constructions of the Victorian Civilian (Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2014), p. 86.

  36Ibid., p. 85.

  37Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 14 February 1905, BPL, p. 113.

  38Beatrix Potter to Messrs Warne & Co., 11 September 1901, BPL, p. 55.

  39Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 136.

  40Ibid., p. 150.

  41Lane, Margaret, The Tale of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1946, repr 1985), p. 63.

  42Beatrix Potter to F. Warne & Co., 19 January 1902, BPL, p. 59.

  CHAPTER 6

  1BPJ, 7 September 1885, p. 156.

  2BPJ, 18 June 1885, pp. 152–3.

  3Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 17 November 1904, BPL, p. 108.

  4BPJ, 11 October 1895, p. 407.

  5BPJ, 18 March 1885, p. 141.

  6BPJ, June 1894, p. 319.

  7Ibid.

  8Ibid., p. 320.

  9Ibid., p. 322.

  10Ibid., p. 320.

  11Ibid., p. 321.

  12Ibid., p. 326.

  13Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 157.

  14BPJ, 28 July 1896, p. 427.

  15Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 21 March 1903, BPL, p. 72.