Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Beatrix Potter
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Standard Name: Potter, Beatrix
Birth Name: Helen Beatrix Potter
Married Name: Helen Beatrix Heelis
BP
gained fame as a writer of little books for children, about animals which to some degree resemble humans, illustrated in watercolour by herself. Some of them draw on fable, riddles, and fairy stories. She also created scientific drawings of plant life. Her ambitions as an author for adults remained largely unfulfilled.
RMW
's total reviews eventually numbered over one hundred and fifty. In her first year she considered children's books (including a title by Beatrix Potter
), books on design, and second-rate novels. Her efforts were...
Textual Production
Flannery O'Connor
At about nine Mary Flannery O'Connor
gathered a small group of friends to whom, in a wooden play-house among the chickens, she would read from her pages and pages of handwritten stories about a family...
Following Frederick Ashton
's highly successful Beatrix Potter
ballet, filmed by EMI
, RG
published a book entitled The Tale of the Tales: the Beatrix Potter Ballet.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
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Textual Features
E. Nesbit
The guardian of two young cousins blows their inheritance and absconds leaving them nothing but a house and five hundred pounds. Fresh from school, the two girls respond differently: Lucilla is anxious but Jane Quested...
Textual Features
Evelyn Sharp
In The Palace on the Floor a little boy, Prince Picotee, builds a castle for his toy soldiers; his earnestness as a builder is laughed at by a little girl, Dimples. Dimples is disciplined for...
Residence
Barbara Cartland
Part of the appeal of Camfield Place for her was its storied history: an oak tree in the garden is said to mark the place where Elizabeth I
shot her first stag, and from 1867...
Publishing
Rumer Godden
She was commissioned to write this book by Frederick Warne and Company
, Potter's publishers, having established herself as a Potter admirer by talks, an anniversary New York Times article, and her friendship with Leslie Linder
Publishing
Alison Uttley
AU
rewrote it for eventual publication by Collins
. She sent a set of the Little Grey Rabbit books as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth
in 1947 (and had, she said, a charming thank-you...
Intertextuality and Influence
Louisa May Alcott
Following her death, G. K. Chesterton
in a laudatory (if sexist) review classed LMA
with Austen
as an early realist, and praised her apt depictions of human truths.
Chesterton, G. K. “Louisa Alcott”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 212-14.
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She was a favourite writer...
Intertextuality and Influence
Maria Edgeworth
Literary memoirs and old second-hand illustrated editions testify to ME
's enormously wide juvenile audience during the Victorian period. She influenced the work of later children's writers as various as Louisa May Alcott
, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Friends, Associates
Angela Thirkell
Twelve-year-old Angela Mackail (later AT
) received a picture-letter from Beatrix Potter
(a neighbour and a very recently published author) featuring a rabbit and two squirrels.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Bridge
Marie Louise (Day) Sanders
, AB
's mother, was an American from New Orleans, Louisiana (where her English husband met her on a business trip). She died in 1922
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Hoehn, Matthew, editor. Catholic Authors. St Mary’s Abbey.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brought up by her black Mammy...
Education
Deborah Moggach
From her early reading DM
chose Richmal Crompton
's William Brown as her hero. She loved the way that Crompton and Beatrix Potter
used words that would be new discoveries to most of their child readers.
Moggach, Deborah. “Autobiography”. Deborah Moggach: About Deborah.
Sanderson, Caroline. “Deborah Moggach interview”. Mslexia, No. 55, pp. 51-3.
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Education
Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information...
Timeline
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Texts
Weatherly, Frederic E., and Beatrix Potter. A Happy Pair. Hildesheimer and Faulkner; Geo. C. Whitney, 1890.
Potter, Beatrix. Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes. Frederick Warne, 1917.
Potter, Beatrix. Dear Ivy, Dear June: Letters from Beatrix Potter. Other Press, for the Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, Toronto Public Library, 1977.
Potter, Beatrix, and Katherine Sturges. Sister Anne. David McKay, 1932.
Potter, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. David McKay, 1929.
Potter, Beatrix. “The Fairy Clogs”. Country Life.
Potter, Beatrix et al. The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897. Frederick Warne, 1966.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne, 1903.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Frederick Warne, 1918.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. Frederick Warne, 1930.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. Frederick Warne, 1906.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Mr. Tod. Frederick Warne, 1964.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Privately printed, Strangeways.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. Frederick Warne, 1913.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Frederick Warne, 1903.
Findlay, Walter Philip Kennedy et al. Wayside and Woodland Fungi. Frederick Warne, 1967.
