3/20/2023 0 Comments Beatrix potter books![]() In 1923 Beatrix Potter bought Troutbeck Park Farm, and became an expert in breeding Herdwick sheep, winning many prizes at country shows with them. The office of William Heelis is now the National Trust’s ‘ Beatrix Potter Gallery‘. Then started the next stage in her life, being a Lakeland farmer, which lasted for 30 years. Hill Top is still as it was then, and is now the most visited literary shrine in the Lake District.īeatrix Potter married William Heelis, a solicitor in Hawkshead, in 1913. Tom Kitten and Samuel Whiskers lived there. Seven of her books are based in or around Hill Top. In 1909 she bought another farm opposite Hill Top, Castle Farm, which became her main Lakeland base. In 1905 she bought Hill Top, a little farm in Sawrey, and for the next eight years she busied herself writing more books, and visiting her farm. She now had an income from her books, Peter Rabbit having now sold some 50000 copies. In 1903 Beatrix Potter bought a field in Near Sawrey, near where they had holidayed that year. Fawe Park featured in ‘The Tale of Benjamin Bunny’. Her third book, ‘Squirrel Nutkin’ had background views based on Derwentwater, Catbells and the Newlands valley. Rawnsley encouraged her to publish, and eventually Frederick Warne published ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ in 1902. Rawnsley encouraged her drawings, and when back in London Beatrix made greetings cards of her pictures, and started a book. They still kept in touch with Rev Rawnsley, who after 5 years at Wray, moved to Crosthwaite Church just outside Keswick. She watched squirrels in the woods, saw rabbits in the vegetable gardens of the big house. Beatrix loved Derwentwater, and explored Catbells behind Lingholm. The Reverend Rawnsley’s views on the need to preserve the natural beauty of Lakeland had a lasting effect on the young Beatrix, who had fallen in love with the unspoilt beauty surrounding the holiday home.įor the next 21 years on and off, the Potters holidayed in the Lake District, staying once at Wray Castle, once at Fawe Park, twice at Holehird and nine times at Lingholm, by Derwentwater, famous now for its rhododendron gardens. ![]() The Potters entertained many eminent guests, including Hardwicke Rawnsley vicar of Low Wray Church, who in 1895 was to become one of the founders of the National Trust. Beatrix was 16 when they first stayed here. Her parents took her on three month summer holidays to Scotland, but when the house they rented became unavailable, they rented Wray Castle near Ambleside in the Lake District. She had many animals which she kept as pets, studying them and making drawings. She lived a lonely life at home, being educated by a governess and having little contact with other people. Beatrix Potter’s childhood Beatrix Potter aged 15īeatrix Potter was born on 28 July 1866 in South Kensington, London. In later life she moved to the area and eventually integrated into the farming community. Beatrix Potter, famous for her beautifully illustrated ‘little books’, fell in love with the Lake District as a child.
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