Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

Author/Guide: Linda Lear

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1866 – 1943: The amazing life and times of Beatrix Potter

ISBN: 978-0141003108
Genre: Biography/memoirs

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What you need to know before your trail

Beatrix Potter’s books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.

Locations

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England - The Lake District
A: National Trust - Hill Top
B: National Trust - Beatrix Potter Gallery
C: Wray Castle
D: The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction

Travel Guide

Beatrix Potter’s Lakeside inspiration..

Hill Top

The Beatrix Potter Gallery

The World of Beatrix Potter

The Lake District

Beatrix walked extensively around the Lake District despite there being no guide books and maps etc that exist today. She would walk for pleasure and take time to record the fungi and other specimens of plants she found. Her journey of 1882 records her walking from Wray Castle to Hawkshead. It was this love of nature and natural ability to live amongst it, that she beame the famous author and later conservationist she did.