A wonderful historical novel which paints a very life-like portrait of the much-loved Beatrix Potter. Many people know Beatrix Potter simply as the writer and illustrator of some of our best-loved children's stories. Fewer know about her struggle to escape the overbearing influence of her parents. Elizabeth Battrick was inspired to recreate this crucial period in Beatrix's life in the form of a novel. Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, it opens when Beatrix was thirty and ends when she was in her mid-forties, a time filled with dramatic conflict, passion and tragedy.

Beatrix Potter's Tale (U)

Literature & Fiction

Battrick, Elizabeth

Contemporary

Ulverscroft

Guardian of the Lakes: A history of the National Trust in the Lake District from 1946

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Westmorland Gazette

<p>This story of Beatrix Potter's struggle to escape the overbearing influence of her parents follows her life from the age of thirty to her mid-forties, a time filled with dramatic conflict, passion and tragedy. Elizabeth Battrick takes us from foggy Victorian London to the sweeping beauty of the Lakeland fells, and contrasts the colourful "below stairs" exchanges of the servants with the Potter family's suffocatingly genteel existence. Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, this fascinating account paints a very life-like portrait of the writer and illustrator of some of our best-loved children's stories.</p>

Beatrix Potter's Tale

Magna Story Sound

A wonderful historical novel which paints a very life-like portrait of the much-loved Beatrix Potter.  Many people know Beatrix Potter simply as the writer and illustrator of some of our best-loved children's stories.  Fewer know about her struggle to escape the overbearing influence of her parents.  Elizabeth Battrick was inspired to recreate this crucial period in Beatrix's life in the form of a novel. Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, it opens when Beatrix was thirty and ends when she was in her mid-forties, a time filled with dramatic conflict, passion and tragedy.

Beatrix Potter's tale: A fictional portrait

Ellenbank Press

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