Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman

Taylor, Judy

Verlag: Frederick Warne / Penguin Group, London, England, 1988

Beschreibung

Fine condition dark brown cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Colour Plates; Dedication; Foreword; Further Reading; Acknowledgments; and Index. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, color drawings, and black-and-white drawings. " 'I remember so clearly - as the brightness of the rich Scotch sunshine on the threadbare carpet - the morning I was ten years old - and my father gave me Mrs Blackburn's book of birds, drawn from nature, for my birthday present .' Another twenty-five birthdays were to pass before Beatrix Potter's own animals and birds 'drawn from nature' were seen by children, and even then, in 1901, this exceptionally gifted author-artist was obliged to print and sell The Tale of Peter Rabbit herself. In an age when young women from affluent homes were not expected 'to go into art' commercially, Beatrix experienced many rebuffs, but within ten years her special talent was recognized, and her 'little books,' as she called them, were selling in their millions. This is the story of the storyteller and artist whose delicate line and fastidious sense of colour and design brought her lasting fame. As a young woman Beatrix touched the depths of despair when her editor and fiance, Norman Warne, died suddenly. In middle age she married her solicitor, and like the best fairy stories, 'she lived happily ever after', a well-known figure in the Lake District, which she had made her home: authoritarian yet gruffly kind, retreating from her admirers, a benefactor of The National Trust with which she was concerned from its inception. During the last twenty years of her life, her eyesight failing and her peak creative years past, she devoted all her time to her farms, breeding the Herdwick sheep of the Lakeland fells she loved. Judy Taylor has written an affectionate biography which is as down-to-earth as her subject, yet is full of surprises, new insights into Beatrix Potter's life and work and fascinating glimpses of her engaging animal characters. Professionally involved in the world of Beatrix Potter for many years and a children's book editor herself, Judy Taylor has had access to over eight hundred of Beatrix Potter's letters and papers, and has collected new material from many people who knew 'the grand old lady'. Fully illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with many previously unpublished photographs as well as illustrations from the various Beatrix Potter archives, this book is a moving tribute and memorial to a fascinating woman; a storyteller and artist admired by generations of children - and their parents." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Excellent reading" - Nicholas Tucker, Times Educational Supplement. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004016

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and ...

Verlag: Frederick Warne / Penguin Group, London, England

Erscheinungsdatum: 1988

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 2nd Edition