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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature | 
 enlarge | Author: Linda Lear
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 156424
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0312377967
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780312377960
ASIN: 0312377967
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Product Description
In this remarkable biography, Linda Lear offers a new look at the extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children’s books of all time. Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but The Tale of Peter Rabbit brought her fame, financial success, and the promise of happiness when she fell in love with her editor Norman Warne. After his tragic and untimely death, Potter embraced a new life as the owner of Hill Top Farm in the English Lake District and a second chance at happiness. As a visionary landowner, successful farmer and sheep-breeder, she was able to preserve the landscape that had inspired her art. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature reveals a lively, independent and passionate woman, whose art was timeless, and whose generosity left an indelible imprint on the countryside.
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Anglophile and Lakeland Lover June 18, 2008
If you are familiar with the English Lake District or just an Anglophile you will enjoy this wonderfully detailed book on the life of Beatrix Potter. I wizzed through it's over 400 pages. Potter was an amazing woman who lived an interesting life and left an extraordinary legacy both in literature and property. You will never see "Peter Rabbit" the same way again!
very interesting book May 27, 2008
I think other reviewers nicely report the life of Beatrix Potter as very interesting. The categories included in the "Select Bibliography" show the breadth of further investigation that can be stimulated by the book: Biography and Criticism; Agriculture; Children's Literature, Art and Photography; Contemporaries; Environmental History; The Lake District; Mycology, Paleontology, and Archeology; Religion: Unitarians and Quakers; Science and Natural History; Women.
An in depth look at Beatrix Potter April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A highly detailed account of the entire family of this great writer/painter. Very complete and entertaining.
 For people with true interest in B.Potter April 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have never read any of Beatrix Potters books and never really knew anything about her. One day I discovered the movie Miss Potter with my favourite actress and I felt I wanted to know more about Beatrix Potter. I bought this book and it was quite boring! I think to relly enjoy it you have to have a true interest in B.Potter. This book bored me. Personally I thought it was a 3-star but give it 4 since it written extremly well.
A Remarkable Biography April 1, 2008
I'll have to admit that it took the movie Miss Potter to stir my interest in Beatrix Potter; once stirred however, I discovered that Miss Potter was truly a remarkable women. This book displays in a very well written manner the many facets of a life that went far beyond Peter Rabbit. My wife read it first, raved about it, and then turned it over to me. It didn't take long to see the source of her enthusiasm. The book gives a carefully documented look into the life of a young women in England during the first part of the 20th century.
Miss Potter was a most extraordinary young woman to say the least. The obstacles she had to overcome proved her to be a woman of great imagination and courage; her determination to be her own person, in spite of the societal challenges she faced shaped her into a woman of depth and devotion to her dreams and visions.
Over the course of her life, Beatrix Potter lived two greatly different lifestyles. First as an author and finally as a farmer; fortunately for her, her first life as an author helped her accomplish the dream of her second life, as Mrs. William Heelis, in the gift of thousands of acres of land in the English Lake District to the National Trust to be preserved for the people of England.
I would encourage all who have enjoyed Peter Rabbit to find out more about the exceptional woman who started it all.
This book is a worthy addition to anyone's library.
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