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Becoming Beatrix : the life of Beatrix Potter and the world of Peter Rabbit / Amy M. O'Quinn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]Description: xii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781641604406
  • 1641604409
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Contents:
Beginnings at 2 Bolton Gardens -- Girlhood and growing up -- Fevers and fungi -- Discoveries, disregard, and the road to recognition -- More little books, love, and loss -- From London to the Lake District -- Mrs. Heelis -- Ventures and investments -- Last years and legacy.
Summary: "Becoming Beatrix: The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit covers Potter's early life and influences, artistic work, fascination with animals and the natural sciences, and interest and research with fungi, as well as her writing and illustration journey and her later years as a wife, farmer, businesswoman, environmentalist, and conservationist"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Biography POTTER, B. O62 Available 33111010659361
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography POTTER, B. O62 Available 33111010835870
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Beatrix Potter forged her own creative path to independence, fame, and financial success.



Peter Rabbit, Hunca Munca, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck--many readers are familiar with the animal characters created by British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. But she was so much more than a painter of watercolor bunnies in little blue jackets or ducks waddling about in bonnets and shawls. She was a natural scientist, mycologist, environmentalist, preservationist, farmer, and expert sheep breeder. Beatrix Potter was a woman ahead of her time, making her own decisions and handling her own business affairs despite living in a Victorian society that was unaccustomed to unmarried women doing so.



Becoming Beatrix covers Potter's early life and influences, artistic work, fascination with animals and the natural sciences, and interest and research in fungi, as well as her writing and illustration journey and her later years as a wife, farmer, businesswoman, and conservationist.



This is the story of Beatrix beyond the bunnies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index.

Beginnings at 2 Bolton Gardens -- Girlhood and growing up -- Fevers and fungi -- Discoveries, disregard, and the road to recognition -- More little books, love, and loss -- From London to the Lake District -- Mrs. Heelis -- Ventures and investments -- Last years and legacy.

Ages 8-12. Chicago Review Press.

Grades 4-6. Chicago Review Press.

"Becoming Beatrix: The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit covers Potter's early life and influences, artistic work, fascination with animals and the natural sciences, and interest and research with fungi, as well as her writing and illustration journey and her later years as a wife, farmer, businesswoman, environmentalist, and conservationist"-- Provided by publisher.

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