Linda lear beatrix potter biography books

From Publishers Weekly

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), creator of the immortal Peter Rabbit, is known as an avid writer of comical illustrated letters to friends and as an assertive marketer of her illustrations, and this lively volume also captures her energetic participation in Victorian-era natural history research and conservation.

Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life.

This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman.

In this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of.

In Linda Lear's enchanting new biography, we get the life story of this incredible, funny, and independent woman.

In this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an.

Environmental historian Lear (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature) relates that, as a child in an upper-middle-class family, Potter sketched flowers, dead animals and live lizards, insects and rodents that she brought home. "Rabbits were caught, tamed, sketched, painted" by young Beatrix and her brother, Bertram.

In 1893, while traveling with her pet rabbit, Peter Piper, and seeking unusual fungi with self-taught mycologist Charles McIntosh, Potter jotted an illustrated note "about a disobedient young rabbit called 'Peter' " to an ailing child friend and sketched Peter's nemesis, a McIntosh–look-alike farmer called Mr.

McGregor, creating "two fictional cha