Book Description
Richly illustrated and filled with quotations from her books, letters, and journals, Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is essential reading for all who know and cherish Beatrix Potter and her classic tales.
Author : Marta McDowell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604695420
Richly illustrated and filled with quotations from her books, letters, and journals, Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is essential reading for all who know and cherish Beatrix Potter and her classic tales.
Author : Marta McDowell
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604699752
“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.” —The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener—sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson’s poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America’s most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
Author : Marta McDowell
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604693630
“An enchanting and original account of Beatrix Potter's life and her love of plants and gardening.” —Judy Taylor, vice president of the Beatrix Potter Society There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide and interest in her work and life remains high. And her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener’s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler’s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter’s gardens today.
Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Frederick Warne
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1991-09-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780723237143
Contains charts and record-keeping pages, as well as tips for producing a beautiful garden
Author : Linda Lear
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429972157
In this remarkable biography, Linda Lear offers a new look at the extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. 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, 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.
Author : Penelope Lively
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525558381
From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst and into her own backyard, traversing the lives of writers like Virginia Woolf and Philip Larkin while imparting her own sly and spare wisdom. "Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon. Now in her eighty-fourth year, Lively muses, "To garden is to elide past, present, and future; it is a defiance of time."
Author : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 191135809X
“Sumptuous...a fitting legacy for a pioneering conservationist who helped save thousands of acres of the Lake District” – The Mail on Sunday, August 2016 To this day, Beatrix Potter’s tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert. A famous author who gave it all up to become a farmer. In The Story of Beatrix Potter, Sarah Gristwood follows the twists and turns of Beatrix Potter’s life and its key turning points – including her tragically brief first engagement and happy second marriage late in life. She traces the creation of Beatrix’s most famous characters – including the naughty Peter Rabbit, confused Jemima Puddleduck and cheeky Squirrel Nutkin – revealing how she drew on her unusual childhood pets and locations in her beloved Lake District. She explores too, the last 30 years of Potter’s life, when she abandoned books to become a working farmer and a pioneering conservationist, whose work with the National Trust helped to save thousands of acres of the Lake District – a legacy that, like her books, continues to enrich our lives today. Main text: 30,000 words. Approx 3,000 words for captions and index.
Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Henry Altemus Company
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
Author : Jackie Bennett
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0711277168
The Writer's Garden presents an intriguing study of the beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces of 30 history's greatest writers.
Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Frederick Warne Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780723244448
This witty little book contains tongue-in-cheek advice for life's everyday situation on manners, morality and just plain common sense.