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  16Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 27 March 1903, BPL, p. 73.

  17Beatrix Potter to F. Warne & Co., 8 May 1902, BPL, p. 61.

  18Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 20 March 1903, BPL, p. 72.

  19Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 21 March 1903, BPL, p. 73.

  20Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 9 October 1910, BPL, p. 185.

  21Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 12 February 1904, BPL, p. 85.

  22Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, 7 October 1923, BPL, p. 283.

  23Beatrix Potter to Alexander McKay, 21 February 1929, BPL, p. 314.

  24Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 14 July 1903, BPL, p. 78.

  25Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 12 February 1904, BPL, p. 85.

  26Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 8 July 1903, BPL, p. 77.

  27Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 26 June 1905, BPL, p. 121.

  28Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 8 June 1905, BPL, p. 120.

  29Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 20 October 1904, BPL, p. 104.

  30Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 1 February 1906, BPL, p. 139.

  31Ibid.

  32Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, ?September 1903, BPL, p. 81.

  33Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 12 February 1904, BPL, p. 85.

  34Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 1 March 1904, BPL, p. 88.

  35Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 9 November 1903, BPL, p. 82.

  36Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 15 December 1903, BPL, p. 84.

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

  38Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 198.

  39Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 30 July 1905, BPL, p. 124.

  40Beatrix Potter, 13 August 1905, Beatrix Potter : A Holiday Diary, ed. Judy Taylor (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1996), p. 39.

  41Ibid., p. 13.

  42Ibid., 24 August 1905, p. 51.

  43Ibid., p. 52.

  44Ibid., p. 53.

  45BPJ, 6 September 1896, p. 432.

  46BPJ, 28 May 1895, p. 384.

  47Beatrix Potter to Winifred Warne, 6 September 1905, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 121.

  48Beatrix Potter to Molly Gaddum, 11 October 1895, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 98.

  49Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 503.

  50Beatrix Potter : A Holiday Diary, op. cit., p. 58.

  51Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 22 August 1912, BPL, p. 199.

  CHAPTER 7

  1Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 423.

  2BPJ, 25 July 1896, p. 426.

  3BPJ, 23 July 1896, p. 426 ; 17 November 1896, p. 434.

  4BPJ, 26 July 1896, p. 426.

  5BPJ, 26 August 1896, p. 430.

  6BPJ, 28 July 1896, p. 427 ; 17 November 1896, p. 433.

  7BPJ, 17 November 1896, p. 433.

  8Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Pigling Bland, p. 69.

  9Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 14 October 1905, BPL, p. 134.

  10Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 10 October 1905, BPL, p. 133.

  11Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 496.

  12Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 34.

  13Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 4 October 1906, BPL, p. 148.

  14Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 10 October 1905, BPL, p. 133.

  15Beatrix Potter Studies IV (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1990), p. 13.

  16Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 15 March 1916, The Choyce Letters, ed. Judy Taylor (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1994), p. 12.

  17Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore, 17 April 1898 ; Beatrix Potter to Frida Moore, 26 January 1900, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, pp. 52, 64.

  18Beatrix Potter’s Americans : Selected Letters, ed. Jane Crowell Morse (Horn Book, Boston, 1982), p. 207.

  19Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 18 July 1906, BPL, p. 142 ; Susan Denyer, Beatrix Potter : At Home in the Lake District (Frances Lincoln, London, 2000), p. 94.

  20Beatrix Potter to Norman Warne, 19 April 1904, BPL, p. 92.

  21Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 18 November 1908, BPL, p. 165.

  22Lane, Margaret, The Tale of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1946, repr 1985), p. 99 ; Beatrix Potter to Louisa Ferguson, 8 January 1910, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 135.

  23Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 17 August 1908 and 15 December 1908, BPL, pp. 161, 166.

  24Beatrix Potter to Eileen Rowson, 6 March 1919, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 191.

  25Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 17 November 1909, BPL, p. 171.

  26Beatrix Potter to Louie Warne, 6 July 1907 and 8 July 1907, Letters to Children, op. cit., pp. 123–4.

  27Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 15 March 1916, The Choyce Letters, op. cit., p. 13.

  28Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 236.

  29Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter : Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1986), p. 120.

  30Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 6 October 1907, BPL, p. 155.

  31On jam-making, see Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 15 March 1916, The Choyce Letters, op. cit., p. 14.

  32Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 6 October 1907, BPL, p. 155.

  33BPJ, 10 June 1884, p. 93.

  34Denyer, Susan, op. cit., p. 52.

  35Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, ?1925, The Choyce Letters, op. cit., p. 45.

  36Potter, Beatrix, The Fairy Caravan (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1929, repr 1986), p. 40.

  37Beatrix Potter to Mrs J. Templeman Coolidge, 30 September 1927, BPL, p. 306.

  38Beatrix Potter to Louie Warne, 8 July 1907, BPL, p. 152.

  39Beatrix Potter to Hettie Douglas, 31 March 1939, BPL, p. 402.

  40Lear, Linda, op. cit., pp. 499, 239, 265.

  41Taylor, 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. 135.

  42BPJ, 11 October 1895, p. 407.

  43Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 25 May 1916, The Choyce Letters, op. cit., p. 17.

  44BPJ, 13 August 1896, p. 429.

  45Beatrix Potter Studies IV (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1990), p. 30.

  46De Vasconcelles, Josefina, She was Loved : Memories of Beatrix Potter (Titus Wilson, Kendal, 2003), p. 101.

  47Beatrix Potter to Margaret Hough, 4 November 1913, BPL, p. 214.

  48Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 23.

  49Beatrix Potter to Andrew Fayle, c. 1909, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 141.

  50Beatrix Potter to Andrew Fayle, 1909–10, ibid., p. 143.

  51Beatrix Potter to Augusta Burn, 25 August 1912, ibid., p. 158 ; Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 22 August 1912, BPL, p. 199.

  52Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 9 October 1912, BPL, p. 200.

  53Beatrix Potter to Caroline Clark, 15 February 1937, BPL, p. 384 ; Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 15 March 1916, The Choyce Letters, op. cit., p. 13.

  54Beatrix Potter Studies IV, op. cit., p. 33.

  55Beatrix Potter to Augusta Burn, 31 December 1912, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 159.

  56BPL, Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 3 March 1913 and 19 April 1913, BPL, pp. 203, 205.

  57Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 4 July 1913, Frederick Warne Archive.

  58Beatrix Potter to Margaret Hough, 4 November 1913, BPL, p. 214.

  CHAPTER 8

  1Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 23.

  2Beatrix Potter to Barbara Buxton, 31 December 1913, BPL, p. 215.

  3BPJ, 5 June 1891, p. 217.

  4Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 30 September 1906, 14 October 1905 and 5 April 1906, BPL, pp. 146, 134, 1
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  5Hyde Parker, Ulla, op. cit., p. 21.

  6Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 343

  7Beatrix Potter to Henry P. Coolidge, 28 June 1928, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 216.

  8Ibid., p. 212.

  9Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 23 February 1914, BPL, p. 216.

  10Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 12 July 1914, BPL, p. 218.

  11Beatrix Potter to Edith Gaddum, 8 June 1923, BPL, p. 282.

  12Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 235.

  13Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 9 May 1914, BPL, p. 217.

  14Beatrix Potter Studies IV (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1990), p. 38.

  15Lear, Linda, op. cit., p. 366.

  16Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 12 July 1914, BPL, p. 218.

  17Beatrix Potter to William Warner, 11 August 1908, private collection.

  18BPJ, 8 August 1895, p. 392.

  19BPJ, 17 August 1895, p. 395.

  20Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 15 March 1916, The Choyce Letters, ed. Judy Taylor (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1994), p. 12.

  21Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 18 May 1915, BPL, p. 221.

  22Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 12 August 1916, and Beatrix Potter to Ernest A. Aris, 23 November 1917, BPL, pp. 227, 241.

  23Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 25 November 1940, BPL, p. 423.

  24Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 15 December 1916, BPL, p. 228.

  25Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 3 August 1914, BPL, p. 219.

  26Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, ?18 December 1915, BPL, p. 222.

  27Ibid., 4 May 1918, BPL, p. 247.

  28Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 138.

  29Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, 17 October 1917, BPL, p. 238.

  30Ibid., 21 June 1917, BPL, p. 234 ; Beatrix Potter to Tom Harding, 21 December 1917, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 180.

  31Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, 17 October 1917, BPL, p. 238.

  32Ibid., 28 February 1919, BPL, p. 254.

  33Beatrix Potter to Fruing Warne, 12 January 1921, BPL, p. 267.

  34Ibid., 3 November 1919, BPL, p. 259.

  35Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 273.

  36Beatrix Potter to Miss Wyatt, 15 November 1920, BPL, p. 264.

  37Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 29 July 1922, and Beatrix Potter to Bruce Thompson, BPL, pp. 279 and 349.

  38BPJ, 23 April 1883, p. 38.

  39Beatrix Potter to Tom Harding, 21 December 1917, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 180.

  40Beatrix Potter to Esther Nicholson, 16 July 1918, Letters to Children, p. 175.

  41Beatrix Potter to Neville Rowson, 6 March 1919, Letters to Children, p. 192.

  42Lear, Linda, op. cit., pp. 290, 390.

  43Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce, 15 March 1916, The Choyce Letters, op. cit., p. 12.

  44Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 13 December 1934, BPL, p. 371.

  CHAPTER 9

  1BPJ, 26 May 1884, p. 89.

  2Ibid.

  3BPJ, 9 September 1895, p. 400.

  4Potter, Beatrix, The Fairy Caravan (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1929, repr 1986), p. 178.

  5Beatrix Potter Studies IV (The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1990), p. 44.

  6Beatrix Potter to Millie Warne, 13 December 1911 ; Beatrix Potter to the editor of Country Life (published 13 January 1912), BPL, pp. 192–3.

  7Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony, 20 May 1927, BPL, p. 304.

  8Beatrix Potter to Harold Warne, 8 January 1910, BPL, pp. 174–5.

  9Beatrix Potter, The Fairy Caravan, op. cit., p. 130.

  10Beatrix Potter to Alexander McKay, 20 February 1929, BPL, p. 313.

  11Beatrix Potter to Henry P. Coolidge, 1 January 1930, BPL, pp. 328–9.

  12Denyer, Susan, Beatrix Potter : At Home in the Lake District (Frances Lincoln, London, 2000), p. 124.

  13Ibid., p. 120.

  14Lear, Linda, Beatrix Potter : A Life in Nature (Allen Lane, London, 2007), p. 9.

  15Beatrix Potter Studies IV, op. cit., p. 54.

  16Ibid., p. 44.

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

  18BPJ, 18 October 1892, p. 295.

  19Beatrix Potter to Mr S. H. Hamer, 20 October 1929, BPL, p. 318 ; Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 180.

  20Beatrix Potter to John Stone, 5 June 1940, BPL, p. 416.

  21Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 23.

  22Ibid., p. 15.

  23Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter : Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1986), p. 175.

  24Beatrix Potter to Daisy Hammond and Cecily Mills, 30 March 1939, BPL, p. 398.

  25Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 185.

  26Ibid., p. 190.

  27Ibid., p. 203.

  28Beatrix Potter to Bertha Mahony Miller, 18 June 1942, BPL, p. 449.

  29Beatrix Potter to Mrs J. Templeman Coolidge, 9 December 1929, BPL, p. 324.

  30Beatrix Potter Studies IV, op. cit., p. 47.

  31Ibid., p. 41.

  32Denyer, Susan, op. cit., p. 137.

  33Beatrix Potter Studies IV, op. cit., p. 40.

  34Beatrix Potter to June Steel, 11 October 1939, BPL, p. 408.

  35Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 190.

  36Beatrix Potter to Nora Burt, 5 June 1931, BPL, p. 341.

  37Carpenter, Humphrey, Secret Gardens : A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (Allen & Unwin, London, 1985), p. 141.

  38Beatrix Potter to Caroline Clark, 15 February 1937, BPL, p. 384.

  39Taylor, Judy, op. cit., p. 191.

  40Denyer, Susan, op. cit., p. 103.

  41Beatrix Potter to Henry P. Coolidge, 28 June 1928, Letters to Children, op. cit., p. 215.

  AFTERWORD

  1BPJ, 28 May 1895, p. 387 ; Beatrix Potter to Arthur Stephens, 12 May 1942, BPL, p. 444 ; Linder, Leslie, A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, including Unpublished Work (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1971), p. 357.

  2Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore, 4 June 1895, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1992), collected and introduced by Judy Taylor, p. 32.

  3BPJ, 22 September 1892, p. 273.

  4Beatrix Potter to Josephine Banner, 28 February 1938, BPL, p. 387.

  5BPJ, 5 June 1891, p. 217.

  6Beatrix Potter to Sylvie Heelis, 17 September 1921, BPL, p. 272.

  7Beatrix Potter to Henry P. Coolidge, 28 June 1928, BPL, p. 311.

  8Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie : A Memory of Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1981), p. 23.

  List of Illustrations

  p. 1 Beatrix Potter, aged five (The Beatrix Potter Society; www.beatrixpottersociety.org.uk).

  p. 21 Portrait of a young Beatrix Potter (The Beatrix Potter Society; www.beatrixpottersociety.org.uk).

  p. 49 Beatrix and Bertram Potter (The Beatrix Potter Society; www.beatrixpottersociety.org.uk).

  p. 77 Beatrix Potter at Dalguise (Popperfoto / Getty Images).

  p. 101 Beatrix Potter with Benjamin H. Bouncer (© WorldPhotos / Alamy Stock Photo).

  p. 125 Beatrix Potter, aged twenty-six, in Birnham, Scotland (Hulton Archive / Getty Images).

  p. 153 Beatrix Potter in the porch at Hill Top (Topfoto).

  p. 181 Beatrix Potter with William Heelis, 1913 (Courtesy of a private collector).

  p. 201 Beatrix Potter with Tom Storey (Beatrix Potter Gallery © National Trust / Robert Thrift).

  PLATES

  Coloured sketch of foxgloves (courtesy of the Trustees of the Linder Collection).

  Unfinished painting of the interior of Melford Hall, 1903 (courtesy of the Trustees of the Linder Collection).

  Amanitopsis vaginata by Beatrix Potter, from a specimen found at Keswick, 30 August 1897 (courtesy of the Armitt Trust, Ambleside).
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  ‘A view over hills and valleys’ by Beatrix Potter (courtesy of the Trustees of the Linder Collection).

  ‘The Meal’ from ‘The Rabbits’ Christmas Party’ (courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum).

  ‘Come dance a jig to my Granny’s pig’ (courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum).

  ‘The Mice Listen to the Tailor’s Lament’ from The Tailor of Gloucester (courtesy of Tate Images).

  Water lilies on Esthwaite Water (courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum).

  Index

  Ansdell, Rosalie 27

  Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes 194–6

  Ashton, Thomas 127

  Bedford Street 138, 140, 141, 145

  Benjamin Bunny (pet)

  Benjamin Bunny (character) see Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The

  Bolton Gardens 5–13, 18–21, 33–35, 38, 54, 56, 87–9, 116–8, 165, 167, 175–7, 189

  Burton, Fred 38, 150, 223

  Burton, Harriet (née Leech) 38, 150, 158, 223

  Caldecott, Randolph 4, 29, 107, 108, 141, 168

  Cameron, Miss 47–8, 89, 96–7, 99, 137, 216

  Camfield Place 39–44, 47, 62–7, 111, 157, 167, 204

  Cannon, John 158–9, 163, 165, 183, 198

  Carter, Annie 69, 89–91, 103, 132, 120, 122, 136

  Castle Cottage 168, 183–4, 188, 191, 214, 218–9

  Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes 47, 56, 197, 216

  Chambers, Robert 107

  Chippy Hackee, see Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The

  Conan Doyle, Arthur 124

  Coniston 45, 74, 208, 210, 217

  Coolidge, Gail Templeman 215–6

  Coolidge, Henry P. 207, 215

  Country Life 168, 178, 204

  Crane, Walter 29, 100

  Crompton, Jessy see Potter, Jessy

  Dalguise 36–7, 62, 66, 70, 73–6, 90, 109, 157, 203–4

  Dunkeld, Perthshire 114–5

  Esthwaite Water 110, 156, 157

  Evans, Edmund 141

  Fairy Caravan, The 9, 16, 18, 30, 33, 65, 80, 104, 109–11, 159, 167, 206–8, 215

  Flopsy Bunnies see Tale of Flopsy Bunnies, The

  Frederick Warne & Co. 58, 100, 124, 135–8, 140–1, 145, 193–4, 197

  Gaddum, Molly 150

  Gaddum, Walter 116

  Ginger and Pickles, see Tale of Ginger Pickles, The

  Greenaway, Kate 29, 100, 141, 168

  Gorse Hall 38

  Gwaenynog, Denbighshire 150, 161, 167, 224–5