Beatrix Potter, Linda Lear
Beatrix Potter, Linda Lear
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Beatrix Potter
A Life in Nature

Author: Linda Lear

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 18 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/16/2019

Synopsis

In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but The Tale of Peter Rabbit brought her fame, financial success, and the promise of happiness when she fell in love with her editor, Norman Warne. After his tragic and untimely death, Potter embraced a new life as the owner of Hill Top Farm in the English Lake District and a second chance at happiness. As a visionary landowner and a successful farmer and sheep-breeder, she was able to preserve the landscape that had inspired her art.

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature reveals a lively, independent, and passionate woman, whose art was timeless, and whose generosity left an indelible imprint on the countryside.

About Linda Lear

An environmental historian and biographer, Linda Lear is the author of the prizewinning study Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. A natural history enthusiast and a collector of botanical art, she and her husband tend gardens in Bethesda, Maryland, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on April 13, 2016

Getting to know Beatrix Potter has been a slow unfolding for me and started in a funny place. In my early twenties I worked in a record store that was next to a gift shop. That gift shop is where I fell in love with Beatrix Potter's little character figurines made by F. Warne & Co. Ltd. in Beswick,......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on September 21, 2021

Although this book took me a while to get into I eventually fell in love with it and its subject Beatrix Potter. So many thoughts come crowding in. I related so much to her wrangling with her unscrupulous publisher. I vividly recalled my own walks in the Lake District and even the most glorious hike......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on August 22, 2024

If I was to try to explain why I love Beatrix Potter's books so much, I would have to say it is the attention to detail - the simply beautiful precision of the anthropomorphic drawings, the "truth" in the animals' characterisations which whilst whimsical are by no means idealistic and show nature to......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 07, 2008

If you have fond memories of the Tale of Peter Rabbit from your childhood; or if you have an interest in women who bravely challenged a social destiny that seemed foregone and inevitable; or if you are interested in naturalism and the history of preservation, you will enjoy and learn from Beatrix Po......more

Goodreads review by Anne on July 27, 2021

I'm cheating a little by marking this book as "read" because I didn't read it all, but I did have a decent flip-through and read several sections. But as much as I love Beatrix Potter's tales and her wonderful legacy upon this world, I'm afraid I simply cannot sit through 500+ pages of her life and......more

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