At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit

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As an artist and storyteller Beatrix Potter is world-famous. Of no less importance is her work in protecting one of the vital finest examples of the Lake District’s landscapes and in creating romantic interiors and a beautiful garden at Hill Top, the farmhouse she bought at Near Sawrey in 1905. Her picturesque house and the breathtaking scenery inspired many of Beatrix’s stories and drawings. This book looks at the relationship between the Lake District and her work and includes a large number of extracts from her letters and diaries, in addition to atmospheric photographs from the Beatrix Potter archive.

The richly illustrated At Home with Beatrix Potter will delight the many admirers of the artist and creator of children’s books. Her beloved characters–Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and their whimsical friends–were inspired by the English countryside, which she grew to love all the way through summer vacations as a girl. In 1905, at the age of 40, Potter bought Hill Top Farm overlooking Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, a region of hills and lakes famous for its glorious landscapes. She continued to shop for property in the area with her royalties, and by the point she died 37 years later, she had amassed over 4,000 acres. She fought vigorously to preserve the wonderful thing about the Lake District and its rural ways, leaving her estate to the National Agree with, Britain’s leading conservation agency. This book, written by an official of the Agree with, is a tribute to the jewel of the estate, 17th-century Hill Top Farm. Potter restored and furnished it as a showcase of English country ways, though she in reality lived in a large cottage nearby. Her substantial collection of Lake District antiques reflected the influential Arts & Crafts movement, which emphasized the integrity of handmade objects in a period of increasing mechanization. The book takes us on a tour of the farm, alternating the artist’s original photographs and watercolors with photographs of the building and countryside as they look today. Several two-page spreads of the garden in early summer and the Lake District in late autumn are especially beautiful. Unpretentious, solid, charming, understated: At Home with Beatrix Potter embodies the rustic virtues that Beatrix loved. –John Stevenson

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