Beatrix Potter's tale : a fictional portrait

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

Beatrix Potter's tale : a fictional portrait

Author:

Battrick, Elizabeth.

ISBN:

9780708938911

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

412 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

General Note:

"Complete and unabridged."

Summary:

Many people know Beatrix Potter simply as the writer and illustrator of some of our best-loved children's stories. Fewer know about her struggle to escape the overbearing influence of her parents. Elizabeth Battrick was inspired to recreate this crucial period in Beatrix's life in the form of a novel. Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, it opens when Beatrix was thirty and ends when she was in her midforties, a time filled with dramatic conflict, passion and tragedy. --Book jacket.

Personal Subject:

Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943-Fiction.

Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943

Subject(s):

Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Women artists -- England -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

This story of Potter's struggle to escape the overbearing influence of her parents follows her life from the age of thirty to her mid-forties, a time filled with dramatic conflict, passion & tragedy. Elizabeth Battrick takes us from foggy Victorian London to the sweeping beauty of the Lakeland fells, & contrasts the colourful "below stairs" exchanges of the servants with the Potter family's suffocatingly genteel existence. Seamlessly blending fact & fiction, this fascinating account paints a very life-like portrait of the writer & illustrator of some of our best-loved children's stories