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The best books on beatrix potter, recommended by libby joy.

The Complete Tales: The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Beatrix Potter

The Original and Authorised Edition

The Complete Tales: The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Beatrix Potter

In spite of the huge popularity of her work, Beatrix Potter has often been underappreciated as an artist and a writer, argues Libby Joy of the Beatrix Potter Society . Here she chooses five books to help you appreciate Potter's life as an author, artist and pioneering conservationist.

Interview by Benedict King

The best books on Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

The best books on Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter's Art: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings by Anne Stevenson Hobbs

Beatrix Potter's Art: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings by Anne Stevenson Hobbs

The best books on Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter's Letters by Judy Taylor

Beatrix Potter's Letters by Judy Taylor

The best books on Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter’s Hedgehogs by Judy Taylor

Beatrix Potter’s Hedgehogs by Judy Taylor

The best books on Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter: At Home in the Lake District by Susan Denyer

Beatrix Potter: At Home in the Lake District by Susan Denyer

books about beatrix potter

1 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

2 beatrix potter's art: a selection of paintings and drawings by anne stevenson hobbs, 3 beatrix potter's letters by judy taylor, 4 beatrix potter’s hedgehogs by judy taylor, 5 beatrix potter: at home in the lake district by susan denyer.

Before we get into your Beatrix Potter book choices, to what do you attribute her perennial appeal? Why do you think she’s been so popular for so long?

Her first book was published in 1902, when she was already 36, and the books have continued to sell ever since. Obviously the stories appeal to children. They are aimed at children and they have text and illustrations that appeal to them, but they also appeal to adults, who are happy to read the books with children because they have an underlying interest that a lot of children’s books don’t necessarily have for adults.

Although her stories are not moralizing, they have a purpose and a point, and they have a bit of humour. For a child they can be quite exciting. There’s a page-turning element. Also, her illustrations are exquisite. They are realistic, compared with many other children’s book illustrations.

It has to be said, that for something to be so successful for so long, you also have to have good publicity and good marketing. In the early days, Potter and her publisher were very astute. They cottoned on quite quickly to the importance of publicity and that has continued right up to the present day. You certainly couldn’t fault Frederick Warne, now under the Penguin Random House umbrella, which is as good at publicity for Beatrix Potter as anyone ever was when she was alive.

You’ve touched on the other question I wanted to ask, which is whether there are any underlying themes in her work, or whether it can be read on two levels, one of which might not be immediately obvious to children, but could be enjoyed by adults?

Some of the Tales are definitely written on two levels. They can be very straightforward: ‘here’s a cat, here’s a mouse, and this is what happens when you put the two together’. It’s a funny story and it’s slapstick; I’m thinking of something like The Tale of Miss Moppet . But several of her later books are definitely written on two levels, with a warning that the world is not quite as straightforward or benevolent as you might think. Examples here are The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck , or The Tale of Mr Tod .

“She was indeed obsessed with drawing”

For children, the double layer is often completely beyond them, but it doesn’t matter because the story still works with a beginning, a middle and an end, and an adventure at its heart. But for adults it’s very satisfying because there is a moral element, or an element of danger or of ‘I-told-you-so’ that adds a bit of interest. There is no one universal theme in the books, but there is definitely a second layer in many of the stories. And, to be honest, I would imagine that that’s partly what kept Beatrix Potter herself interested, the idea that she could write something that, on the face of it, was very straightforward, but which was more interesting and funny if you delve deeper. Some of the books are very funny.

I particularly remember being obsessed by Peter Rabbit when I was younger. That was certainly about the world not being quite as safe as you might expect it to be, and also full of brutal and nasty human beings.

There are nasty human beings in the books, but some animals are also nasty to other animals. There is a ‘nature red in tooth and claw’ side to the books. And, of course, as with Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter is obviously not always on the side of the Goody-Goody-Two-Shoes. She has a certain sympathy for the rebel or the mischief maker. And that also endears her to both children and adults.

Let’s move on to the Beatrix Potter books you’ve chosen for us. The first is Linda Lear’s Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature . Tell us why this is such a good introduction to her life. Also, can you tell us a bit about her life, to get a sense of how she became the person she ended up being? She came from quite an interesting family, I think both her parents were amateur artists and she was an obsessive drawer from a very young age.

She was indeed obsessed with drawing—”I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result…” I think that was partly the background that she came from. Drawing and art were acceptable talents for girls to have and I would imagine that most girls her age, with money, would have governesses and would have been learning to draw. That it became an overriding passion for her is probably partly genetic—her parents were both amateur artists and her father was a very keen amateur photographer. There was also a certain amount of art in her background. One of her grandfathers was a philanthropic patron of the arts, for example, and her father collected the work of Randolph Caldecott.

Wasn’t she related to John Everett Millais?

No, she wasn’t related to him, but he was a friend of her father’s. Rupert Potter would take reference photographs for Millais to use when he was painting in his studio or away from his subject. Some of these photographs are now in the National Portrait Gallery. As a result of that, Beatrix Potter met him several times. Her father also used to take her to the Royal Academy and other galleries and exhibitions in London. So, from quite a young age, she was exposed to great master paintings, Rembrandt , Titian and so on, but also to more contemporary artists, like the Pre-Raphaelites. She wasn’t just learning painting and drawing at home, she was able to see what other artists were doing.

This was all made possible by her background. Her parents were extremely wealthy. Both came from the Manchester area and their families had made their money in the cotton trade. The Potters quite liked to play this down, in that they moved to London partly to establish themselves in society. Her father was a barrister by training, though he practised very little. But it was quite difficult for the Potters to be accepted into London society—they came from the north and probably had northern accents, their money had been made in trade and they were nonconformists, which closed off certain avenues.

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They had the money to behave like upper-middle class people, but their background didn’t gain them entry into all the circles that Mrs Potter would have liked to have been let into. They could afford the lovely long summer holidays that the upper classes enjoyed, and they could afford servants, they had a nice house in Kensington, they had a carriage, Beatrix had governesses and they sent their son away to school, but they mixed mostly with other nonconformists and other professionals rather than the real upper classes.

Tell us specifically about Linda Lear’s biography. What is the tale of Beatrix Potter she tells in this book?

Linda Lear’s primary interest is looking at people in relation to the natural world and science. Lear’s first and very successful biography was of Rachel Carson, who fits that bill. In America, she is the ‘go-to’ expert on Rachel Carson. She first came across Beatrix Potter when she discovered that she also had interests in those areas. She was looking for a new subject to write about and, quite by chance, she saw some of Potter’s fungi paintings, which are meticulously detailed and scientifically accurate and very, very beautiful. This completely amazed her and so she began researching Beatrix Potter’s life and discovered that there was a great deal more to her than just The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other little books.

So, her biography started from that point of view, which is why it’s called ‘a life in nature’. She writes about the whole of Beatrix Potter’s life with great insight, but she concentrates very much on the influence of place, the influence of education, and the opportunities that enabled Beatrix Potter to learn through nature, through science and also through her drawing and painting.

She follows this path right through to the last third of Beatrix Potter’s life, which is probably the third that people are least familiar with, when she was living and working as a farmer in the Lake District and had put the little books behind her. Many of her neighbours in the Lake District had no idea until she died, it was the obituaries that revealed the fact that the Mrs Heelis living in their midst and visiting sheep fairs and so on, was actually Beatrix Potter.

“The book is also very good on how such a constrained background produced a woman of such independence and confidence”

Linda Lear has the benefit of being one of the most recent biographers, of course. There are earlier biographies, the first one was by Margaret Lane in 1946, and Judy Taylor’s later one (1986) is very good. But we know so much more now, and a contemporary biographer always has the benefit of everybody else’s research. Linda’s book, published in 2007, is quite long. It’s quite a dense read and the illustrations are in sections, rather than scattered throughout the book, so it is definitely a ‘read’ rather than lots of lovely pictures with a bit of text. But it tells you everything you could possibly need to know about Beatrix Potter in every part of her life and the notes and references are very rewarding.

It’s particularly interesting on her background and the nonconformist side of her family, but it’s also fascinating as a picture of a young girl growing up in Victorian England and making the transition to the twentieth century, living in a strict household, but yearning to be something completely different and, of course, with an unexpected interest in science.  The book is also very good on how such a constrained background produced a woman of such independence and confidence, so totally different from how you would have expected her to have turned out.

You mentioned that she yearned for independence. You also mentioned that she had stopped producing her books by the time she started farming up in the Lake District, where she had quite a large estate. When and why did she stop writing her books and devote herself to farming?

If you divide her life approximately into thirds, in the first third she was a dutiful Victorian daughter, learning a certain amount, but totally educated by governesses or self-educated at home, leading a fairly restricted and isolated life but drawing all the while. She went on holiday with her parents, lovely long holidays to Scotland and later to the Lake District, and she wrote a lot of letters, including to children of her acquaintance.

But by the time she was in her thirties, she realized that the sort of marriage that her parents might have wanted for her was not what she wanted and that she was not the sort of wife that young men were looking for. She was shy, her social life beyond her family and cousins and so on was virtually non-existent, and she didn’t miss it. But she did want independence—to be able to do things for herself which, in those days, was very difficult outside marriage, because daughters were supposed to stay at home with their parents. So, she needed to make some money and that’s where the little books came in.

“She did want independence—to be able to do things for herself which, in those days, was very difficult outside marriage ”

Her last governess, who became her friend, suggested that she might look at the letters that she’d been writing to children with little stories and pictures in them, to see whether they might be something she could turn into books. The writing of the little books really spans from about 1900 until 1913, though there were some later titles. It was a very short time, during which she wrote prolifically and was full of ideas. That’s the second third of her life.

During those years, she started buying land in the Lake District, so her stories became very Lake District-based. The shift from writing to landowning wasn’t really a conscious decision, but she was making money from the books, which she spent on farms and land and then more farms and more land, building up responsibility for it all and being very hands-on.  Then there were interesting things happening in the fields and on the fells—with the sheep, for example. Also her eyesight deteriorated with age, which made doing all the fiddly small illustrations difficult and, gradually, the writing lost out to her farming interests. She wrote very tellingly to her publisher in 1918, saying, “Somehow when one is up to the eyes in work with real live animals it makes one despise paper-book animals…!”

Suddenly she was a full-time farmer. She ended up owning more than 4,000 acres, with something like 15 different farms. She was drawn into the world of an established, respected landowner, with all the responsibilities that go with that, and that was the last third of her life. There was no conscious decision from one day to the next. It was just how her life developed. And, it has to be said, she was still dependent on the royalties from the little books for this life. She understood that she needed the income that they were generating.

But her estate was funded entirely by her own efforts, it wasn’t a result of inheriting her parents’ money?

No, not only her own efforts. She inherited money as well, from both of her parents. The Potters were very wealthy. I saw somewhere an equation that tells you what they would be worth in today’s money. It’s a lot.

Let’s move on to Beatrix Potter’s Art by Anne Stevenson Hobbs. Is this book largely just illustrations, or does it actually talk about her development as an artist and how she worked?

There’s a good long introduction in this book which talks about the development of Potter’s art, with quite technical explanations of her drawing and painting technique, as well as discussion on her influences and her subject matter. And it is beautifully produced and illustrated. But the reason I chose a book about her art as one of the five books is that in order to understand Beatrix Potter, it’s very important to realize that she is so much more than just the little books.

Anne’s book has examples of her very early art, what she saw on her holidays in Scotland as a child, through her teenage years when her work is a bit more stylized and we know that she belonged to a drawing society and took diploma exams. Everything is a bit more formal. Several still lifes, for example, are a bit stiff. But Potter was also experimenting with fantasy drawings, illustrating fairy tales, rhymes and fables from a young age, and some of those are lovely. Then, in the 1890s, she made a bit of money from selling designs to companies that made greetings cards.

“It’s possible to follow the trajectory of her life in rather the same way as you would with a biography, but looking at it visually through her own work.”

But all the time she was sketching, and this book also shows that very well—the pages and pages of sketches of rabbits, mice, birds and frogs (most of them her own pets) and of flowers and landscapes. She’s always sketching and so later, when she came to produce the little books (which, of course, are also illustrated in this book), you can see that the illustrations are based on years of observation and drawing. That’s what makes them so accurate.

Later on in her life she painted some wonderful, impressionistic watercolour landscapes of the Lake District in and around the village where she lived.  These are amongst my favourites.

Another very important thing to mention about this book—already touched on in relation to Linda Lear’s biography—is that it shows Beatrix Potter as a natural historian and scientist. In addition to all the sketches of animals and the later landscapes, there are very detailed botanical paintings of flowers, mosses and lichens. And there are the absolutely fantastic fungi paintings. There are several hundred of those and most of them are in the Armitt Library and Museum in the Lake District, while others are in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery. They are a surprise to the majority of people, who know only about Beatrix Potter’s little books, or her connection with the National Trust and her role in the Lake District. Fewer people know about the time in her life when she was making these meticulous, accurate drawings and paintings.

And so all these different aspects of Beatrix Potter are contained in this one book about her art, and with the introduction and the captions it’s possible to follow the trajectory of her life in rather the same way as you would with a biography, but looking at it visually through her own work. Some of that work is absolutely beautiful.

Her drawing on fungi actually led to her publishing academic papers on the subject, didn’t it?

Yes, it did. She was not only very interested and very good at studying fungi, but also became a bit obsessed by it. She believed she had discovered something about the symbiotic relationship between lichens and fungi. I can’t explain it to you perfectly because I am not a scientist, but Linda Lear’s book is very good on this. Potter did some research at Kew Gardens and at the Natural History Museum and she set up her own little laboratory in the basement of the Potters’ house.  Supported by her uncle, the chemist Sir Henry Roscoe, she presented her paper, “On the germination of the spores of Agaricineae” , to the Linnean Society in London.

“At one stage, she had thought she might be able to make money as a scientist”

There are various views about what happened next. The paper was read on her behalf by one of the scientists from Kew Gardens, because women were not admitted to Society meetings. Some sources say that the paper was rejected. But it wasn’t actually rejected out of hand—it was sent back requiring ‘more work’, which was not an uncommon response. People have been quick to say that it was rejected because she was a woman and an amateur and the Linnean Society has been rather vilified as a result. I actually don’t believe that that is quite what happened. I think the members simply asked her to do more work on it, though her sex and lack of training might have had something to do with the way the request was presented. Anyway, for whatever reason, she lost interest, maybe her confidence was dented, or she felt she had been rejected. We don’t know. The paper itself is lost and so are any comments about it, or she didn’t write them down. And it’s clear that her interest in fungi faded away after that and she became more interested in making money from her little books.

I think that, at one stage, she had thought she might be able to make money as a scientist. It became clear to her that she wasn’t going to be able to and she did need to make money. So, she had to look for another way. I think that is probably the simplest way of describing what happened.

She obviously carried on painting after she gave up doing little books, when she was living in the Lake District. Is her entire work pencil sketches or watercolours, or did she paint or create in other mediums?

There are a few oil paintings, but they are mostly early. She preferred watercolour. Her brother Bertram was quite an accomplished artist and he did paint in oils, but that wasn’t a medium she enjoyed. Her work is nearly all pencil, watercolour or pen and ink.

Let’s go on to the Beatrix Potter’s Letters , edited by Judy Taylor. You’ve already alluded to some of these. Do they largely consist of fan mail, or family and farming, or is it a mixture?

The letters cover every part of her life, really. Judy Taylor has annotated the collection so, where it’s not obvious what a letter is about or to whom it’s written, there is an explanatory note. Judy wrote a number of other books about Beatrix Potter, including her biography, and she became the ‘go-to’ expert for every aspect of Beatrix Potter’s life. This particular edition of her letters goes all the way from one or two surviving letters written when she was a child—you know, ‘Dear Papa, how is the dog?’ (or whatever)—through to some written a few days before she died in 1943. There are letters to fans, to family, to friends and to publishers. Later on, there are letters to farming acquaintances and to the National Trust. There are also letters to American visitors and to children, some of whom she knew and who were the lucky recipients of picture letters, and to children who had written fan mail to her, some of whom she corresponded with for a number of years.

Many of the most interesting letters are where she’s just an ordinary person writing to a friend, when she’s not an author or a farmer or a celebrity. She’s just Beatrix Potter or, as she became, Beatrix Heelis. They remind us that Beatrix Potter was really just like you and me. She was an ordinary person who happened to do some extraordinary things in her life, and the letters run parallel to the biography and to the art, filling out the character and personality of this extraordinary woman.

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I think, to a modern generation, the idea that one person should have written thousands of letters in a life that spanned 77 years is just unthinkable. We’ve probably all written thousands of emails, but that’s not the same and they’re not preserved in the same way. It is astonishing that it is possible to read somebody’s life through the letters that they wrote, and there are hundreds of letters that aren’t published at all, despite another book edited by Taylor, Letters to Children , and a volume of letters to Beatrix Potter’s Americans , selected and edited by Jane Crowell Morse.

She had a huge fan base in the States, did she?

The American side of Potter’s fan base is a very interesting story, resulting partly from America having a very strong tradition of libraries. They had an importance there that they didn’t quite have here. They were the prime introduction to reading and literature for many children and families, and librarians held a rather more respected position there than they tended to enjoy in Britain. It was actually librarians who were the first Americans to visit her in England, and that started in the 1920s. Having guarded her privacy very closely, she was persuaded by her publisher to accept a visit from an American librarian and was surprised to discover a woman of great intelligence and culture, who really appreciated her work for its literary and artistic merits. This was the respected New York librarian, Anne Carroll Moore, who introduced others.

In Britain, Potter felt her books were treated rather like toys by the booksellers, whereas the Americans, she gradually discovered, regarded her with much more respect and really appreciated the literary qualities of her books.

She was flattered, of course. But there is a very interesting parallel to be drawn between Potter—a nonconformist, independent and, as it turned out, freethinking woman in a still quite a repressed English society—with these educated American women from the East Coast, whose ancestors had gone over on the Mayflower and were founding fathers. They were feisty, intelligent and opinionated and she found she could interact on equal terms with them, whereas here in England, class got in the way.  You were an employer or an employee. You were well-bred, or not. None of that intruded with the Americans, so her letters to her American visitors are in many ways very open, and very interesting about England and the war and politics. Fascinating.

It’s interesting what you say about the American libraries. I hadn’t really appreciated that, but I’ve occasionally visited public libraries in some American cities—for instance Chicago—and they’re amazing buildings. The one in Chicago is like a palace, with all these mosaics and huge improving quotes from Milton and Shakespeare scattered around the walls. It’s an absolutely extraordinary place and you really get the sense that it’s been built as a temple of learning.

In New York and in Philadelphia—it’s probably the same in Chicago—you have the central library, but the libraries elsewhere in the city are part of the same organization. In the UK, our libraries tend to be more independent from each other. But a library in a suburb of New York is still linked to the New York Public Library and it’s the same with the Free Library of Philadelphia. I think it’s still the case now that libraries are more important in America than they are here. An extraordinary percentage of the Beatrix Potter Society members in America—it’s celebrating its 40th anniversary this year—are actually librarians or in some way connected with librarianship, perhaps where it overlaps with primary education.

“In Britain Potter felt her books were treated rather like toys by the booksellers, whereas the Americans…regarded her with much more respect and really appreciated the literary qualities of her books”

This digression illustrates a point about the letters, actually, which is that if you’re reading what somebody has written about their life in this way, it sends you off in lots of different directions beyond their life and work. They act as a social-history springboard into all sorts of other areas that you wouldn’t necessarily have thought about, but which can be very interesting.

Absolutely. The death of letter writing is a huge tragedy for future historians.

Our emails will vanish and disappear. What we’re left with is what is said on websites and so on, and that won’t necessarily be from a primary source. It’s a pity.

On that melancholy note, let’s move on to Beatrix Potter’s Hedgehogs . This is a publication by The Beatrix Potter Society. What was it about Beatrix Potter and hedgehogs?

This book is Judy Taylor again. The original idea for it was to celebrate Judy’s 80th birthday. Over the years and all over the world she gave talks about Beatrix Potter on many different subjects and we chose one of her unpublished talks to make into a little booklet. The Society has produced all sorts of publications over its 40 years, but for a choice of five books like this most of them are a bit too specialised, because they tend to be collections of the Society’s international conference papers, for example. Hedgehogs is a subject that’s of interest to everybody and the talk is reasonably lighthearted as well as informative. It’s suitable for a birthday and it celebrates Judy Taylor, without whom we would know much less about Beatrix Potter than we do.

What’s interesting about it to the general reader is that it illustrates everything we’ve been talking about up to now in one short little 24-page illustrated booklet. It starts with Beatrix Potter’s interest in hedgehogs from the natural history point of view and her observations about them in nature and in real life. She had a pet hedgehog called Mrs Tiggy, whom she wrote about in letters to children and sketched and whose behaviour she examined. When she started writing her little books, one of them included a hedgehog based partly on Mrs Tiggy and this became The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle . So, straight away you’ve got the transfer from real life to little-book life, which is the pattern that nearly all the little books followed.

“She had a pet hedgehog called Mrs Tiggy, whom she wrote about in letters to children and sketched and whose behaviour she examined”

The booklet illustrates every aspect of Beatrix Potter’s own interests, but it also goes on to show how incredibly astute she was as a businesswoman, and there are examples here of her marketing ideas. And, although Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is an early book [1905] and was written before Potter really became a farmer or a landowner in the Lake District, it is set in the Lake District with all the background in the pictures based on sketches made during a Lake District holiday.

So, tied up in one subject you’ve got all the themes running through Beatrix Potter’s life. I thought that it was a good example to use and the illustrations are lovely.

Finally, Beatrix Potter at Home in the Lake District by Susan Denyer. I’m interested to understand how she ended up getting so attached to the Lake District. But, anyway, what story does this book tell?

I realized that we needed a book that concentrated a bit more on the on the later part of her life. There’s quite a lot of detailed work available about her farming interests and the sheep and everything, which I didn’t think was suitable for our purposes, and Linda Lear’s book covers this very well. But a positive about Susan Denyer’s book is that Denyer herself worked for the National Trust for a long time and is very knowledgeable about the topography and culture of the Lake District as well as its agriculture.

There’s an element of all those in this book. But, basically, it’s also an introduction to the Lake District on a more superficial level, and to Beatrix Potter’s involvement there, and it is beautifully illustrated, with some stunning photography.

For many years the Potters went to Scotland for their summer holidays. But in 1882 the house they took in Perthshire, Dalguise, was no longer available. Beatrix was 16 and they rented Wray Castle, a house in the Lake District. That was the family’s first Lake District holiday, which they all enjoyed, and thereafter they tended to spend their holidays there, either around Derwentwater or Windermere.

“She felt herself to be a northerner—something she probably embroidered a little bit”

I think there are two reasons for Beatrix Potter’s interest in the area. One is the fact that she spent happy holidays there and thought the landscape was very beautiful. But also, although she was born in London, she hated it and it made her ill. Her family had originally come from the north and, as she grew older, she put more emphasis on her northern roots. They became more and more important to her. Perhaps they also helped her to explain why she never really settled in London or in London society. She felt herself to be a northerner—something she probably embroidered a little bit.

After she had been living in the Lake District for 20 years and had already bought quite a lot of land and farms, a particular estate, called Monk Coniston, came up for sale, and included a small farm that had once belonged to her great-grandfather on her father’s mother’s side, Abraham Crompton. He had been a wealthy merchant in Lancashire and had bought Holme Ground as a holiday house several generations previously. It was no longer in the family and Potter liked the idea of buying it back.

Denyer’s book describes Potter’s holidays, her growing love for the area, her first purchases, including Hill Top Farm, and her other farms in the Windermere area.  Also her interest in farming practices—in sheep, in learning to understand the cycle of the farming year and the different ways of dealing with the land. All that became a great passion for her and she sought advice from local people and built up a reputation as a respected breeder of sheep. It’s a fascinating end to a life that started so differently. She almost reinvented herself, really, as a respected farmer and sheep breeder and there’s a strong element of conservation and stewardship there, as well, which Linda Lear’s biography discusses clearly.

I wanted to ask you about that because I think it’s a fascinating aspect of the whole story. She left all her land to the National Trust. She was clearly very worried about that part of the world being developed and losing its character which, given that she died in 1943, seems to be quite prescient. Can you tell us a bit about her life as a conservationist?

Potter was introduced to the National Trust right at its very inception because her father was one of its first members. As a family, they knew Hardwicke Rawnsley, who was one of the three founders of the National Trust. They met him in the Lake District in 1882 and he was a great influence on Potter, teaching her a lot about Lake District traditions and history, and how to read the landscape and to appreciate its local character. So that was ingrained in her from a very young age.

As she got older and became a landowner herself, she became aware of the threat to the Lake District from development, from holiday chalets and houses in particular, and from the expansion of the railway and roads. She also saw a threat from the Forestry Commission, who would plant up great swathes of hillside with conifers. So, there was a double threat; the development threat tended to be in the valleys and on the low-lying land around the railways and the roads, and the forestry threat was more widespread on the hills.

“She ended up owning more than 4,000 acres, with something like 15 different farms.”

So a strong motivation for buying land in the beginning was to protect it from development. There’s one particular estate she bought, Troutbeck Park, which is in a beautiful valley with the fells going up around it and behind it. There was prime development land in the bottom of the valley because it was easily accessible from both Windermere and Ambleside and from the railway, which already came to Windermere. She was desperate to stop the valley being built over and developed, so she bought it, which she was lucky enough to be able to do.

There’s an interesting contradiction here, and I’m not sure that it’s been fully researched yet, which is that Potter understood that the Lake District needed visitors and tourists and so on, and she understood that the National Trust had a role to play in that as well, but she also understood that you couldn’t just have development willy-nilly. I suspect she was a bit ‘not-in-my-backyard’ to a certain extent, but she didn’t actually stop people going onto her land. She complained about coach tours and people who didn’t understand about shutting gates and so on, but she wasn’t against them completely. I suppose it’s the same contradiction that continues today between landowners and farmers and members of the public.

It’s the classic upper-class tourist complaint. When she was young and very rich, hardly anyone was going on holiday to the Lake District. It seemed fine that a few people like her did, but when lots of people started doing it, it ruined the fun.

The Lake District is very accessible, particularly from Liverpool and Manchester, and there was a great move, which was partly tied up with the National Trust, to make green spaces available for the factory workers, who needed somewhere they could go for a day trip or for a holiday, and to encourage them go there.

But, although Potter started out wanting to preserve the Lake District, she actually found the whole business of farming and landowning and so on interesting. And, as with everything else she had done in her life in its various stages, she wanted to know about it—to learn about it, and to be productive and useful and good at it. So, she taught herself as much as she could about breeding sheep (Herdwicks in particular) or cattle and grazing, and she was fairly modern in some ways, getting rid of diseases and so on and following new agricultural practices. (She allowed electricity in farm buildings, though not in her own house!) She was also very astute at picking the best people to come and work for her and she had no qualms about poaching the good shepherd from a neighbouring farm if he was the person to improve her sheep flock. And, if she could pay him a slightly better wage and offer him a slightly nicer house and perhaps offer his wife some work, then all was fair in love and war, as it were.

Is her estate in the Lake District still run pretty much as she left it, or have economic pressures forced changes on it?

Her Lake District bequest to the National Trust is mostly preserved as she wanted, in that her farms are still farmed, with a stock of Herdwick sheep where appropriate, and Hill Top house is still a place to visit exactly as it was when she left it. However, there have been some changes and one or two of the farms have had to be merged lately.  Every time this happens there is a row between those who think that her will should be observed exactly and those who think that the National Trust must be free to make changes, given the current economic and farming climates.

I would say that her legacy is doing pretty well and that, were she to come back now, she would recognize most of it. But there have had to be changes because the National Trust has to make money and be solvent, like the rest of us.

So I’m not in the camp that thinks it’s wrong for them to make any changes at all, and I think the public has to trust them to make changes as near as possible to those that Potter would have understood herself. If I have any quibble with the National Trust and what it does with her legacy, I would say it’s more to do with—commercialisation is the wrong word—a bit of dumbing down and a tendency to market her as a bit twee, which she wasn’t at all. That was one thing she wasn’t. But, on the whole, I would say they’ve done a pretty good job in very difficult circumstances.

Finally, what’s the Beatrix Potter Society’ s role in running her estate?

None—that role falls either to her publishers, Frederick Warne, or to the National Trust. The Beatrix Potter Society is a registered charity and an appreciation society, a literary society. It was founded by people who were already involved in her legacy, working with the Potter collections left to the V&A. Increasingly, people would ask whether there was a Beatrix Potter Society and so, eventually, one was founded in 1980. The Society holds conferences and meetings, but it is also a forum for sharing information about Beatrix Potter, researching into her life and work and publishing its findings.  It also produces a Journal and Newsletter three times a year and has an e-newsletter, a website and active social media platforms.

Times are tricky now because people can find information about Beatrix Potter on the internet without having to join the Society. So it has fewer members, which means less income and it is short of volunteers. Those who used to have time to volunteer are few and far between now and it is difficult to find people prepared to do this in quite the same way as before.

And, of course, a number of the older, long-standing members are not particularly keen on the internet and some of them don’t even have access to it. The move for a lot of similar societies—and in life in general—is online. But if you’re in your 80s or 90s online is not necessarily an option that is open to you. So there’s a permanent tension between going online to save money and reduce costs and to reach a new audience, and worrying about depriving some members of access to material by doing that. So far the balancing act is working and, thanks to its hardworking Committee, the Society has done well to reach its fortieth year, despite pandemic restrictions.  It has members all over the world, from the UK and America to Japan and Australia, and it’s a great source of joy and interest to a lot of people, as well as a valuable resource for anyone interested in Beatrix Potter.

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Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

(1866-1943)

Who Was Beatrix Potter?

Beatrix Potter spent a solitary childhood with long holidays in the country. She loved to sketch animals and later invented stories about them. In 1902, Potter published The Tale of Peter Rabbit , which launched her career as a children's author. More than 20 other books for young audiences soon followed. Potter's tales of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Benjamin Bunny and others have become children's classics.

Early Years

Born Helen Beatrix Potter on July 28, 1866, in London, England, Potter is one of the most beloved children's authors of all time. She was the daughter of Rupert and Helen Potter, both of whom had artistic interests. Her father trained as a lawyer, but he never actually practiced. Instead, he devoted himself to photography and art. Her mother Helen was skilled at embroidery and watercolors. Potter got to know several influential artists and writers through her parents, including painter John Everett Millais.

Potter, along with her young brother Bertram, developed an interest in nature and animals at an early age. The pair often roamed the countryside during family vacations to Scotland and England's Lake District. Potter demonstrated a talent for sketching as a child with animals being one of her favorite subjects. In the late 1870s, she began studying at the National Art Training School.

Peter Rabbit and Other Tales

Potter first tasted success as an illustrator, selling some of her work to be used for greeting cards. One of her most famous works, The Tale of Peter Rabbit , started out as a story she wrote for the children of a former governess in a letter. Potter later transformed this letter into a book, which she published privately.

In 1902, Frederick Warne & Co. brought this delightful story to the public. Their new edition of The Tale Of Peter Rabbit quickly became a hit with young readers. More animal adventures soon followed with The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903) and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) among other stories. Norman Warne worked as her editor on many of these early titles.

Potter suffered a great personal loss in 1905 when Warne died. He passed away just weeks after he proposed to her. Her parents, however, had objected to the match. She bought Hill Top Farm in the Lake District that same year and there she wrote such books as The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907) and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers (1908).

Later Life and Death

In 1913, Potter married local lawyer William Heelis. She only produced a few more books after tying the knot. Potter published The Fairy Caravan in 1926, but only in the United States. She thought the book was too autobiographical to be released in England. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930) proved to be her final children's book.

Instead of writing, Potter focused much of her attention on her farms and land preservation in the Lake District. She was a successful breeder of sheep and well regarded for her work to protect the beautiful countryside she adored.

Potter died on December 22, 1943, in Sawrey, England. In her will, she left much of her land holdings to the National Trust to protect it from development and to preserve it for future generations. Potter also left behind a mystery—she had written a journal in code. The code was finally cracked and the work published in 1966 as The Journal of Beatrix Potter . To this day, generation after generation are won over by her charming tales and illustrations.

In 2016, Beatrix Potter fans received welcome news. A previously unpublished story, The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots , would be making its way to bookstore shelves that fall. An unedited manuscript for the work had been discovered by children's book editor Jo Hanks. Potter had only done one illustration for the book so Quentin Blake created the images to accompany this tale.

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  • Name: Helen Beatrix Potter
  • Birth Year: 1866
  • Birth date: July 28, 1866
  • Birth City: London
  • Birth Country: England
  • Gender: Female
  • Best Known For: British author Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated more than 20 children's books starring Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny.
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • Astrological Sign: Leo
  • Death Year: 1943
  • Death date: December 22, 1943
  • Death City: Sawrey
  • Death Country: England

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  • Article Title: Beatrix Potter Biography
  • Author: Biography.com Editors
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  • Url: https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/beatrix-potter
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  • Publisher: A&E; Television Networks
  • Last Updated: April 22, 2021
  • Original Published Date: April 2, 2014

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Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author conservationist, natural scientist, and illustrator best known for the 24 Tales series of animal books that featured the character Peter Rabbit. Beatrix was born in Kensington, London to Helen and Rupert Potter in 1866. Beatrix and her younger brother Walter Bertram loved to paint and draw, and would make sketches of their pets that included bats, snakes, lizards, frogs, mice, and rabbits. With her parents encouraging her, Beatrix spent hours on her sketches of plants and animals, which was evidence of her early attraction to the natural world that continued into her adult life. Even as she never attended any type of formal schooling, she turned out to be an industrious and intelligent student to Miss Cameron her art teacher and her governess Annie Moore. Her two pet rabbits Peter Piper and Benjamin Bouncer were among some of her earliest artist models. Peter Piper typically went everywhere with Beatrix and had a talent for tricks, while Benjamin first joined the family when they needed a pet for Beatrix during a holiday to Scotland. Beatrix particularly loved the summers, as the family would always head north to Scotland, where they would holiday for three months. For Beatrix and her brother, the holiday was the long-awaited opportunity to observe insects and plants given the freedom to explore the countryside the parents allowed the children. She became even more interested in nature, the Lake District, and the countryside at age sixteen, when the family holidayed in Wray Castle, whose backyard overlooks Lake Windermere.

Long before she became a respected author, Beatrix had drawn many sketches of some of her childhood’s favorite stories such as Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. It was not long before her art was included in greeting card designs from respected publications such as Changing Pictures and Hildesheimer & Faulkner. One of her earliest published titles included her most famous character Peter Rabbit, that was written in the format of “The Story of Little Black Sambo” by Helen Bannerman. After facing rejection from several publishers, she decided to self-publish her novel and printed 250 copies in 1901 that she gave to friends and family. The book was an instant success, and soon Frederick Warne & Co one of the publishers that had turned her down approached her, offering to publish the novel if she illustrated it in color, which she did. The book was published in 1902 and became an instant bestseller. By 1903, she had published three more titles in the series and went on to publish on average three titles a year until World War I, when she focused more on her land conservation, sheep breeding and farming efforts. What made Beatrix Potter series of novels so popular was the non-didactic nature of the narratives, the imaginative quality of the characters, the depiction of the countryside, and the liveliness of the illustrations.

In addition to publishing her books, Beatrix published many of her creations including the first “Peter Rabbit Doll” that became the world’s oldest licensed literary character in 1903. She would also make other merchandise including bedroom slippers, teas sets and a Peter Rabbit board that she made in 1904. In addition to the games and toys, she published painting books for “Jemima Puddle Duck” and “Peter Rabbit” and a “Peter Rabbit Almanac”. In 1992, the works in the Peter Rabbit series were made into an animated TV series “The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends”. In her later life, she became more interested in rural life particularly the Lake District, where she found solace after losing her fiancé and editor Norman. With a lot of income coming in from her books, she bought Hill Top Farm, which was the setting for many of her subsequent novels. While she was living in the district, she fell in love with and married a local solicitor William Heelis in 1912, who she lived with until her death in 1943. During her lifetime, she was very much involved in farming, and kept a variety of animals on her farm even going as far as winning several prizes, and becoming the President of the Herswick Sheep Breeders Association. Beatrix died in 1943 leaving behind over four thousand acres of land and fifteen farms to the National Trust. However, her most important legacy were her timeless novels, of which over two million copies are sold across the globe every year.

“The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is Beatrix Potter’s debut novel following the adventures of a disobedient and mischievous young Peter Rabbit, who lives on Mr. McGregor’s garden. He escapes from the clutches of McGregor and goes home to be put to bed on chamomile tea. The widowed rabbit mother always tells her children not to go into Mr. McGregor’s garden since their father had been caught in a trap in the garden, and had been made one of the ingredients of a pie. Her three daughters are for the most part obedient and do not visit the garden preferring to pick berries down the lane, even as Peter loves to go into the garden to gnaw on vegetables. It is not long before Peter is spotted, and in a frantic chase to escape loses his shoes and jacket before making it out of the garden. Wriggling under the gate he stops to look back to find the farmer using his clothing to adorn his scarecrow. Happy to be alive, he runs home to a tongue lashing from his other and chamomile tea, while his sisters enjoy a sumptuous meal of berries and milk.

“The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin” is the second novel in the 24 Tales series of novel by Beatrix Potter. The story is about an insolent young squirrel named Nutkin, who narrowly escapes the clutches of Old Brown, one of the deadliest owl’s in the district. Twinkleberry and his brother Squirrel Nutkin construct a raft of twigs and row to Owl Island, where they have heard the nuts are plentiful. Meeting Old Brown the owl, they ask for permission to collect nuts for the winter on the island he rules. However, the insolent Nutkin is busy dancing around while singing to an old stupid riddle. Old Brown ignores Nutkin and allows the squirrels to harvest nuts on his island as long as they offer him gifts every six days. For the impertinent Nutkin, every sixth day is an opportunity to taunt Old Brown with a newly composed singsong riddle. Eventually the owl gets tired of the insolent Nutnkin’s disrespect and grabs him in an attempt to make a meal of him. Fortunately for Nutkin, the owl had gotten hold of him by his tail and twitting and tugging hard he escapes, leaving most of his tail with Old Brown. But the effects of the incident live with him as he gets furious whenever anyone sings him any riddles.

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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The Tailor of Gloucester

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The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin

The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan

The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan

The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

The Story of Miss Moppet

The Story of Miss Moppet

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

The Tale of Tom Kitten

The Tale of Tom Kitten

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding

The Tale of Ginger & Pickles

The Tale of Ginger & Pickles

The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

The Tale of Mr. Tod

The Tale of Mr. Tod

The Tale of Pigling Bland

The Tale of Pigling Bland

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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit

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The Tale of Kitty In Boots

The Tale of Kitty In Boots

The Christmas Present Hunt

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With lots of flaps to look under, what is the first beatrix potter book i should add to my cart.

If you are looking to start with the first book in Potter's children's series, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" should be the initial one to add to your cart. This book established the world of Peter Rabbit and has been cherished by readers for over a century.

Are all of Potter's books available for purchase on Amazon?

Yes, all of Beatrix's work is available on Amazon. You can find both individual titles and complete collections, which are often accompanied by enriching reviews from readers across the globe.

Can I find a list of Potter’s books in chronological order?

Absolutely, our website provides a comprehensive list of Potter's books organized in their published order to ensure you can enjoy the development of the series as originally intended.

I'm looking to shop for a Beatrix Potter book as a gift, which one is the most popular?

"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" remains the most popular and recognized book by Beatrix Potter and makes for a charming gift for any child. Its enduring legacy makes it a treasure on any bookshelf.

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Is there a way to find books by Beatrix that were set in London?

Yes, you can delve into "The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse," which is one of the few Beatrix Potter books with a part of the story set in London, giving readers a delightful contrast with the rural settings typically found in her other tales.

Where can I find reviews of the Beatrix Potter series to decide which book to read next?

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The Legacy of Beatrix Potter

Rachel Syme Staff writer

So far, 2024 has been light on blockbuster films—most studios wait to release their juggernauts until late spring, so as not to distract from Oscars hoopla—but, as of March 1, Big Movies are officially back. On that day, the French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated “Dune” sequel—fittingly called “ Dune: Part Two ”—hits theatres, along with a dust storm of hype and a controversial promotional popcorn bucket that is meant to evoke the toothy mouth of a deadly sandworm. (Many on social media noted that the shape has more erotic connotations; “S.N.L.” has already released a parody music video about it.) “Dune: Part Two,” which was shot in Budapest, Abu Dhabi, and Italy and reportedly cost more than a hundred and twenty million dollars to make, reunites the stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, and Rebecca Ferguson, but also adds some new faces: Austin Butler steps in as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, a rival to Chalamet’s Paul Atreides for dominion over the desert planet Arrakis, and Florence Pugh joins the cast as an emperor’s wise daughter, Irulan. Villeneuve is not the first director to tackle Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic: the avant-garde Chilean French director Alejandro Jodorowsky tried and failed to make a version in the mid-seventies; David Lynch made a much loved, operatically campy box-office flop, in 1984. Villeneuve’s approach is notable for both its sheer ambition and its staggering visual effects. In 2021, in a review for this magazine , Anthony Lane noted that Villeneuve’s first “Dune” installment feels almost too enormous to exist within the boundaries of a movie screen. “Such power as the new film does possess is grounded in simple immensity,” Lane writes. “One’s eye is at first dazzled, then sated, and eventually tired by this pitiless inflation of scale.”

A scene of Arrival with Amy Adams as Louise Banks holding a signage that says human

Where did Villeneuve get his love of bigness ? A new series at Film at Lincoln Center—fittingly called “ Denis Villeneuve ” —attempts, through both a catalogue of the director’s own work and a repertory selection of movies that have inspired him, to answer this very question. The series, running Feb. 16-28, screens eight of Villenueve’s features, including two earlier Canadian productions: “Polytechnique” (2009), a harrowing black-and-white film about a college-campus shooting, and “Incendies” (2010), the story of two Québécois siblings who travel to the Middle East in search of distant family members and uncover troubling secrets about their mother’s past. In the twenty-tens, Villenueve made the leap to Hollywood, directing Jake Gyllenhaal twice in 2013, first in the crime thriller “Prisoners” and then in the absurdist drama “Enemy,” before moving on to make the drug-cartel saga “Sicario,” in 2015. But it was Villeneuve’s 2016 film, “Arrival,” an adaptation of a Ted Chiang novella about a pair of language experts (played by Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner) recruited to communicate with extraterrestrials who have landed on earth, that really pushed him into mainstream success. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. (It won one, for Best Sound Editing.) “Arrival” (playing on Feb. 23 at 6 P.M. ) is a film that glorifies the big-screen treatment; the sound design alone is worth experiencing in the theatre.

Villenueve’s later works, including “ Blade Runner 2049” and the first “Dune,” are also playing, but what makes the series a standout is the director’s choice of other films, which shed light on his expansive cinematic proclivities. From Claire Denis’s “Beau Travail” to Alain Resnais’s “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” to John Cassavetes’s “A Woman Under the Influence,” Villenueve has brought together a jewel-box collection of films that are emotionally walloping even when they make the smallest gestures; he clearly wants you to draw a line from Gena Rowlands’s volcanic performance in Cassavetes’s film to the stormy explosions on the planet Arrakis, even if the connections between them are hazy and not entirely intuitive. It’s fun to spend some time rambling around Villenueve’s Letterboxd favorites list; I suggest seeing as many of his picks as you can before “Dune: Part Two” hits theatres and all anyone can talk about is a gigantic carnivorous worm.

A botanical illustration of two flowers with leaves belonging to an orchid cactus from 1886.

People tend to use the word “love” when they talk about the Morgan Library, which celebrates its centennial this year. Its big spring show honors another beloved institution, the British author Beatrix Potter. Those who know her only for children’s books may be surprised by the breadth of her career as an amateur mycologist, or by the beauty of botanical illustrations such as “Leaves and Flowers of the Orchid Cactus” (pictured), completed in 1886, the year she turned twenty. But her true legacy may well be in merchandising: in 1903, Peter Rabbit became the first licensed character in history, earning his creator more money than she could spend and anticipating a veritable warren’s worth of I.P. cash-ins soon to come.— Jackson Arn (Morgan Library & Museum; Feb. 23-June 9.)

An illustration of the New York City skyline.

In the Goldberg Variations, Bach spins a quiet, vaguely melancholy melody into thirty variations. Each one introduces a mood, a novel interplay of colors, a new shading. In a dance of the same name by the Belgian choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker —the author of works that seem to plumb the very vibrations of sound—Bach’s endless inventiveness translates into a conversation between one dancer’s body in space and the Siberian-born pianist Pavel Kolesnikov’s fingers at the piano. Both start out barefoot and simply dressed (though De Keersmaeker adds some pizzazz at the end); together, they give shape to Bach’s playful flow of ideas, molded by the spare choreographic language—a mix of pivots and bends and swishing of the limbs—and Kolesnikov’s quietly lucid reading of the score.— Marina Harss (N.Y.U. Skirball; Feb. 22-24.)

The interdisciplinary artist Rena Anakwe explores the curative properties of sound design. The first music that she released under the name A Space for Sound collected sound-bath performances from sessions held on Instagram Live, full of the deeply meditative and mellow drones of a tank drum. Her second album, “Sometimes underwater (feels like home),” from 2021, used ambient instruments—the tank drum, along with singing bowls, a multitrack tape machine, an effects pedal, and a synth, plus vocals—to bring a rushing sensation to her euphonic compositions. Anakwe’s live shows pursue a broader sensory balance by mixing music with found-footage visuals and the scents of essential oils. Included on her bill at the fourth edition of the Dweller festival is the experimental R. & B. artist KeiyaA, whose songs also pursue a spiritual cleansing.— Sheldon Pearce (Public Records; Feb. 23.)

portrait of Yunchan Lim dressed in black against a green natural landscape

In 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and he comes to New York City for a second lap in his victory tour when he makes his Carnegie Hall début. Last season, a spot opened unexpectedly on the New York Philharmonic’s calendar, and the ensemble snapped up the preternaturally gifted musician for an electric, smoothly confident rendition of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, which didn’t shortchange the work’s stormy passions. Now the nineteen-year-old Lim appears in his first solo recital in New York, playing Chopin’s études, keyboard studies of elegance and dazzle which the composer started writing, precociously enough, when he was Lim’s age.— Oussama Zahr (Carnegie Hall; Feb. 21.)

A pleasant form of meditation would be to glide through Mary Weatherford’s latest exhibition, “Sea and Space,” and try to count all the greens. In new abstract paintings—some Flashe on linen, some ink on paper, none unimpressive—you will find every shade and saturation of the color, from pond scum to Statue of Liberty, spread across the picture plane in gooey waves. The one thing you will not find is neon lighting, probably the most talked-about component of her earlier paintings, though not my favorite. This time around, an air of psychedelic mysticism presides over everything, inspired, Weatherford has suggested, by NASA photography and trips to the Hayden Planetarium. It’s a trade-up.— Jackson Arn (Gagosian; through March 2.)

Cole Escola and Bianca Leigh in Oh Mary

Cole Escola (left) and Bianca Leigh.

In the breakneck camp farce “Oh, Mary!,” Cole Escola—the comedian, Internet filmmaker, playwright, and evil-sprite actor—plays the First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, or, rather, her bitter, alcoholic, narcissist burlesque, complete with big black dress and dangling Civil War-era ringlets. Barging through White House doors and stomping across national sanctities, this catty-scary version of Mary rages at her killjoy husband, Abe (Conrad Ricamora), because he refuses to let her pursue her true love: cabaret. And . . . I can tell you no more. Escola’s jokes, as explosive as musket blasts, depend on surprise, and I wouldn’t dare get between Mary—one part Carol Burnett, two parts Charles Busch—and a punch line. Sam Pinkleton directs with a steady hand, but the audience hangs on for dear life.— Helen Shaw (Lucille Lortel Theatre; through March 24.)

Before launching her directorial career, Greta Gerwig was a daringly inventive actress, and she gives one of her most furious performances in Mary Bronstein’s ultra-low-budget, ultra-raw 2008 drama, “Yeast,” now streaming on the Criterion Channel. Gerwig plays an art-world beginner named Gen, who goes on a camping trip with a longtime frenemy, a teacher named Rachel (Bronstein), whose roommate, Alice (Amy Judd), abruptly cancels on them. Gen unleashes anarchy on the open road (the streaming service subtitles her first lines of dialogue as “Ahhh! Wahh!”) and chaos in a food court, and she starts physical fights with both of the women and with two guys (Josh and Benny Safdie) whom she meets in the wild. Alice, too, is possessed by an antagonistic demon; Bronstein revels in and shudders at the reckless impulsivity that she finds at the core of creative passion.— Richard Brody

The Legacy of Beatrix Potter

The staff writer Jiayang Fan shares current obsessions.

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1. How often have I fantasized about disappearing into another story in order to escape my own paralysis on the page? Maybe that is why I find the generosity and grace of the HBO series “Sort Of” so welcome and absorbing. Centered on Sabi, a job-juggling, gender-fluid millennial of Pakistani heritage, the show is a cousin of personal dramedies like “Girls” or “Fleabag,” but it’s less obsessed with sticking the perfect landing. The mania to solve the complexities of life, or to untangle braided identities, is likely misplaced, the wise Sabi would probably counsel me. Rethink your story.

2. Given my abundance of nervous energy, I would likely rope Sabi into listening to the addictive, nerdy, under-the-radar podcast “The Psychosphere.” The Social Broadcasts show, hosted by the historian and science writer Melanie Challenger, is a cerebral palate cleanser that invites biologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists to discuss everything from the nature of consciousness and the origin of intelligent life to the personhood of octopuses and elephants.

3. The Whitney’s “Harold Cohen: AARON ” traces the evolution of an artificial-intelligence program for art-making ( AARON ), begun in 1968, by the British artist Harold Cohen. At its heart, the project is an attempt to get to the core of the creative process by coding the cognitive process into software. How sophisticated does a program’s neural network have to be to produce an image that is indistinguishable from what a human can create? At the Whitney, I wished that I could occasionally substitute my procrastinating brain for AARON ’s relentlessly industrious one.

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Although Beatrix Potter may forever be tethered to the “Peter Rabbit” children’s book character that she created, her life’s work extended beyond that of an accomplished author and illustrator.

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More recently last December, Potter was saluted for some of her drawings and studies of fungi that were considered to be decades ahead of scientific research. The earliest disease-causing fungus was named in her honor after it was discovered in the British Natural History Museum’s fossil collections. Who wouldn’t like a 407-million-years-old fungal plant pathogen — Potteromyces asteroxylicola — named in their honor? Potter also has an asteroid named after her, but we digress.

Now, 81 years after her death, Potter’s prismatic life continues to be celebrated. The Morgan Library and Museum in New York will unveil “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” on Feb. 23. Along with “Peter Rabbit,” visitors will find drawings of “Mr. Jeremy Fisher,” “Mrs. Tiggly-Winkle” and other characters from Potter’s classic children’s books. Other artworks, books, manuscripts, picture letters and artifacts mined from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Armitt Museum and Library will be displayed through June 9.

Sarah Gristwood, who penned the biography “The Story of Beatrix Potter,” says, “These exhibitions are repaying a very old debt and a very old wrong, which is very important,” adding that many fans of her children’s books are in the dark about the third chapter of her life as a farmer and conservationist. Integral in the development of Britain’s National Trust in its early days, Potter bequeathed 4,000-plus acres to it.

While “Peter Rabbit” and “Tom Kitten” make many think, “’Oh, how cute,’” Gristwood says, “Animals in her books never know if they’re going to be greeted as friends or eaten, basically. Think of Mr. Fox and Jemima Puddle-Duck and Peter Rabbit’s father being put into a [rabbit] pie. That blend of toughness and cuteness makes them still viable and huge to this day.”

Potter’s tales of animals with human characteristics have appealed to generations of readers in different ways. The accuracy of her animal illustrations, especially their muscularity is another reason for the stories’ longevity, according to Gristwood, who says that Potter boiled down skeletons to study them. She made a habit of taking her pet rabbit for walks on a leash too. Nevertheless, Potter was also coolly matter-of-fact about how her father planned to sell one of her favorite carriage horses to the London Zoo for meat. In listing how the payout varied based on weight, Potter made the distinction, “Thin ones not taken, as the lions are particular.” Many would see such partings more direly, given the demise of what they might describe as “a cute, lovable friend,” Gristwood says.

Far from an overnight sensation, her first book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” started out as a picture letter to a sick child in 1893. After being rejected by some publishers, Potter resorted to self-publishing it in 1901. A year or so later, after retooling her illustrations into color instead of black-and-white at the request of editor Norman Warne, the book was published. After six printings within the first year, the book’s popularity only gained ground from there.

Her prowess for merchandising — stemming from being the offspring of a “very well-to-do manufacturing family,” contributed to that, Gristwood says. The industrious Potter designed greeting cards before venturing into children’s books. Films related to her work are still being made today, Gristwood says. “It just goes on and on and on.”

She wrote nearly all of her children’s books between 1900 and 1913, the same year she married William Heelis. Years before, her engagement to her publisher Warne ended tragically when he died unexpectedly. Gristwood says, “First, there was the Victorian daughter at home, doing her work on myclogy. Then there was the author of the children’s books and then as ‘Mrs. Heelis,’ the farmer and the conservationist.”

Philip Palmer, curator and department head of literary and historical manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum, highlighted in an email how unlike William Wordsworth and other Lake District-based writers, Potter “actually worked the land, raised sheep and preserved the environment for future generations.”

Visitors to the soon-to-open exhibition will learn how nature shaped Potter’s life and work, “from her childhood experiences in the countryside to her scientific interests in mycology and anatomy, through to her later career as a sheep farmer,“ Palmer says. “They will learn how her beloved tales for children are rooted in a fascination with real spaces and places, from the surroundings of her London home to her holidays around Britain and her Lake District farmhouse.”

Understandably enthusiastic about all things Potter-related, Gristwood’s hope is that those who return to Potter’s children’s books as adults see them as the tip of an iceberg and then delve into into her trove of natural history studies, her “brutal streak of realism,” how she overcame depression in her youth and the conservation work she did in the Lake District as a farmer and conservationist.

However revolutionary Potter’s life might appear to be, Gristwood says, “I don’t think she saw herself as a natural rebel or one, who wished to defy the standards of the day. It’s just that in her rather extended early life, as a young woman at home, she didn’t find it easy to conform to the norms that were expected of her.”

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24 Retro Children’s Books Worth More Than You’d Expect

Posted: January 9, 2024 | Last updated: January 9, 2024

<p>I always find it fascinating to discover how expensive some collectibles are. Books are sought-after items that collectors want on their shelves. Some of the famous books that shaped my childhood have become valuable and rare. If only I could go back in time and save some of these books I grew up reading.</p>

I always find it fascinating to discover how expensive some collectibles are. Books are sought-after items that collectors want on their shelves. Some of the famous books that shaped my childhood have become valuable and rare. If only I could go back in time and save some of these books I grew up reading.

<p>Publishers questioned the now iconic story of a child and a tree because they believed it was too depressing for children and too basic for adults. Eventually, it was released in 1964, to a massive success. Generations have adored this story and the meaning behind it. Original copies have been known to go for $3,800.</p>

1. The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

Publishers questioned the now iconic story of a child and a tree because they believed it was too depressing for children and too basic for adults. Eventually, it was released in 1964, to a massive success. Generations have adored this story and the meaning behind it. Original copies have been known to go for $3,800.

<p>For over a century, children have been reading about the adventures and hijinks of a curious little squirrel. Imagine the hijinks you could get into if you had an original copy of this masterpiece because you would have an extra $4,500 in your pocket.</p>

2. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Beatrix Potter

For over a century, children have been reading about the adventures and hijinks of a curious little squirrel. Imagine the hijinks you could get into if you had an original copy of this masterpiece because you would have an extra $4,500 in your pocket.

<p>Arguably one of the first books to create the fantasy genre,  <em> The Hobbit </em>is just as popular today as it was when it was released in 1931. The book sparked an entire movie franchise that would be a blockbuster success. Only 1,500 original copies were printed, but if you are lucky enough to have one, it could be worth up to $65,000.</p>

3. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

Arguably one of the first books to create the fantasy genre,  The Hobbit is just as popular today as it was when it was released in 1931. The book sparked an entire movie franchise that would be a blockbuster success. Only 1,500 original copies were printed, but if you are lucky enough to have one, it could be worth up to $65,000.

<p>This book has several variations, but the one in question here is a limited release from 1969 that came with illustrations from Salvador Dali. The illustrations were dark, much like Dali himself, so hopefully, no children were reading this edition. Still, collectors wanted one of the 2,500 copies printed. A signed copy by Dali was sold for $20,000.</p>

4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol

This book has several variations, but the one in question here is a limited release from 1969 that came with illustrations from Salvador Dali. The illustrations were dark, much like Dali himself, so hopefully, no children were reading this edition. Still, collectors wanted one of the 2,500 copies printed. A signed copy by Dali was sold for $20,000.

<p>The first book of the series was released in 1997. The Harry Potter series is a newer series than what we attribute as retro; still, the books are so iconic it feels like they have been around forever. Only 500 copies were made, but 300 of those went to the Library, leaving 200 original copies ready to make someone rich. If you have a copy and JK is credited as Joanne, you could have a book worth as much as $80,000.</p>

5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling

The first book of the series was released in 1997. The Harry Potter series is a newer series than what we attribute as retro; still, the books are so iconic it feels like they have been around forever. Only 500 copies were made, but 300 of those went to the Library, leaving 200 original copies ready to make someone rich. If you have a copy and JK is credited as Joanne, you could have a book worth as much as $80,000.

<p>Who would have thought that this cute little picture book about a kid running away from home would become so special? Like most kids, I had a copy growing up and loved looking at the pictures and reading the stories. The first copies were printed in 1963, and a signed copy was sold at auction for $20,000.</p>

6. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Who would have thought that this cute little picture book about a kid running away from home would become so special? Like most kids, I had a copy growing up and loved looking at the pictures and reading the stories. The first copies were printed in 1963, and a signed copy was sold at auction for $20,000.

<p>The book <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory </em>was so popular when it was released in 1964 that the 10,000 printed copies were sold in less than a month. The story is still being told sixty years later, and multiple motion pictures have been made. If you have a signed original copy, that could be your golden ticket to a payday of $25,000.</p>

7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

The book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was so popular when it was released in 1964 that the 10,000 printed copies were sold in less than a month. The story is still being told sixty years later, and multiple motion pictures have been made. If you have a signed original copy, that could be your golden ticket to a payday of $25,000.

<p>Written in 1922 and released in both the United Kingdom and the United States, the original book came with seven special illustrations from William Nicholson. The book has become a staple in nurseries and libraries. One was sold for over $15,000 at auction in 2013.</p>

8. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams

Written in 1922 and released in both the United Kingdom and the United States, the original book came with seven special illustrations from William Nicholson. The book has become a staple in nurseries and libraries. One was sold for over $15,000 at auction in 2013.

<p>Beatrix loves taking a cute, cuddly animal and making it a bit adventurous. That is precisely what the now-famous Peter Rabbit is. People have been searching their closets, attics, and garages for original copies, hoping they have an original copy as it has been valued at over $15,000.</p>

9. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter

Beatrix loves taking a cute, cuddly animal and making it a bit adventurous. That is precisely what the now-famous Peter Rabbit is. People have been searching their closets, attics, and garages for original copies, hoping they have an original copy as it has been valued at over $15,000.

<p>The stories of Winnie the Pooh and his eclectic cast of friends wandering in the Thousand Acre Forest have been entertaining kids since it was written in 1926. Almost a hundred years of loveable characters like Eeyore, Tigger, and Piglet. A copy signed by author Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard was sold for over $11,000.</p>

10. Winnie The Pooh, A.A. Milne

The stories of Winnie the Pooh and his eclectic cast of friends wandering in the Thousand Acre Forest have been entertaining kids since it was written in 1926. Almost a hundred years of loveable characters like Eeyore, Tigger, and Piglet. A copy signed by author Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard was sold for over $11,000.

<p>Fun Fact about  <em> A Wrinkle in Time:  </em> many publishers passed on the book because they believed it was too complicated for a children’s book. The joke is on those publishers because the book has become one of today’s most popular children’s books. An original copy of this book can have a price tag of $11,000.</p>

11. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

Fun Fact about  A Wrinkle in Time:  many publishers passed on the book because they believed it was too complicated for a children’s book. The joke is on those publishers because the book has become one of today’s most popular children’s books. An original copy of this book can have a price tag of $11,000.

<p>This book was such a success that it became one of the biggest motion pictures in the history of film. Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, navigate a fantasy world with their new friends. With the help of The Cowardly Lion, the Tinman, and the Scarecrow, they defeat the evil witch and find themselves back home in Kansas. For $8,800, you could have an original copy of one of the greatest fairy tales ever written.</p>

12. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum

This book was such a success that it became one of the biggest motion pictures in the history of film. Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, navigate a fantasy world with their new friends. With the help of The Cowardly Lion, the Tinman, and the Scarecrow, they defeat the evil witch and find themselves back home in Kansas. For $8,800, you could have an original copy of one of the greatest fairy tales ever written.

<p>A fun little story about a random group of forest animals as they become friends and navigate the adventures that come their way is what  <em> The Wind and the Willows </em>is all about. The United States President even stated that he loved the story when it was released. Original copies can be sold for up to $6,000.</p>

13. The Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

A fun little story about a random group of forest animals as they become friends and navigate the adventures that come their way is what  The Wind and the Willows is all about. The United States President even stated that he loved the story when it was released. Original copies can be sold for up to $6,000.

<p>An original copy of this fabled tale could buy you a ticket to Narnia, as they can be sold for as much as $9,000. This iconic book has been made into a motion picture and is still popular today.</p>

14. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

An original copy of this fabled tale could buy you a ticket to Narnia, as they can be sold for as much as $9,000. This iconic book has been made into a motion picture and is still popular today.

<p>The Character of Peter Pan has been around since 1902. Ever since, the character has been one of the most recognizable heroes, thanks to Disney. This was the first dedicated book to Peter Pan and had illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The book sold at auction for $6,500 in 2015.</p>

15. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie

The Character of Peter Pan has been around since 1902. Ever since, the character has been one of the most recognizable heroes, thanks to Disney. This was the first dedicated book to Peter Pan and had illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The book sold at auction for $6,500 in 2015.

<p>The classic story of Mowgli and his jungle friends was one of my favorite Disney movies growing up as a kid. Little did I know it was based on a book. It has actually been around since 1894, and a hard copy of the original press can be worth up to $7,500.</p>

16. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

The classic story of Mowgli and his jungle friends was one of my favorite Disney movies growing up as a kid. Little did I know it was based on a book. It has actually been around since 1894, and a hard copy of the original press can be worth up to $7,500.

<p>The classic stories of the famous detective sleuth Sherlock Holmes have entertained children since 1902. The Sherlock Holmes stories have evolved into many different adaptations and movies, leaving this book a literary revolution. Original copies are now worth almost $10,000.</p>

17. The Hounds of Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

The classic stories of the famous detective sleuth Sherlock Holmes have entertained children since 1902. The Sherlock Holmes stories have evolved into many different adaptations and movies, leaving this book a literary revolution. Original copies are now worth almost $10,000.

<p>When reading this classic novel, Peter Pan, the boy who could fly and never grew up, was everything a child could dream of. The book was such a hit that it spawned other main-character adaptations. A first edition can have a price tag of $10,000.</p>

18. The Peter Pan Portfolio, J.M. Barrie

When reading this classic novel, Peter Pan, the boy who could fly and never grew up, was everything a child could dream of. The book was such a hit that it spawned other main-character adaptations. A first edition can have a price tag of $10,000.

<p>Going through some of these books reminds me that most of us shared the same childhood. Millions of kids learned about colors and numbers while looking through this picture book. The book has been translated into 62 languages and sold over 50 million copies. A 1969 original is a prized collectible and sold for $20,000.</p>

19. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle

Going through some of these books reminds me that most of us shared the same childhood. Millions of kids learned about colors and numbers while looking through this picture book. The book has been translated into 62 languages and sold over 50 million copies. A 1969 original is a prized collectible and sold for $20,000.

<p><em>The Cat in the Hat</em> might be Dr. Seuss’s most recognizable book, and it’s a wonderful children’s classic. A first edition with the original dust jacket, which is hard to come by, is estimated to sell for <a href="https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/seuss-dr/cat-in-the-hat/124814.aspx#:~:text=The%20Cat%20in%20the%20Hat.&text=%2413%2C000.,occurred%20in%20the%20late%201950's." rel="nofollow noopener">roughly $13,000</a>, but these books only become more valuable over time.</p>

20. The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss

The famous poet Dr. Suess made a career from classic children’s stories and their classic rhymes. The nostalgia of this famous kids’ book has collectors spending their money on rare first editions. Some have sold for 13,000 euros, or $14,000.

<p>In 1943, only 525 copies were printed and put into circulation. The book was an instant hit, selling over a million copies and many different adaptations. An original copy will be worth a small fortune, valued at $17,000.</p>

21. Little Prince, Antonie de Saint-Exupery

In 1943, only 525 copies were printed and put into circulation. The book was an instant hit, selling over a million copies and many different adaptations. An original copy will be worth a small fortune, valued at $17,000.

<p>Not super popular in the United States, this collection of Norwegian folk tales is one of the most popular releases in Europe. The author signed 68 of the original copies. If you have held onto one for over 100 years, you could have a book worth $29,000.</p>

22. East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Kay Nielsen

Not super popular in the United States, this collection of Norwegian folk tales is one of the most popular releases in Europe. The author signed 68 of the original copies. If you have held onto one for over 100 years, you could have a book worth $29,000.

<p>This was the first Eloise book by Thompson, and it has a hefty price tag. The original book has handwritten notes from the author and is one of the only known editions to have this manuscript. All that will value the book at $30,000.</p>

23. I am Eloise, I am Six, Kay Thompson

This was the first Eloise book by Thompson, and it has a hefty price tag. The original book has handwritten notes from the author and is one of the only known editions to have this manuscript. All that will value the book at $30,000.

<p><em>A Christmas Carol</em> has been adapted into many movies, musicals, and more, making it one of the most well-known tales. The book came out in 1843, and first editions can <a href="https://www.society19.com/rare-books-you-could-have-that-may-be-worth-a-small-fortune/" rel="nofollow noopener">sell for as much as $75,000</a>, but the high number of first editions in existence makes them slightly less valuable.</p>

24. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Movie adaptions of this famous novel are all over the television this time of year. Scrooge is out to ruin your Christmas, but the story ends up telling the story of redemption and the magical time of Christmas. You definitely won’t be a Scrooge if you find an original copy of this classic novel. Originals can be sold for as much as 33,000 euros or $36,000.

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