Edit] Adaptations and fictionalisations

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills. Set to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Ashton and performed in character costume by members of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera House orchestra. The ballet of the same name has been performed by other dance companies around the world.

In 1982, the BBC produced The Tale of Beatrix Potter. This dramatisation of her life was written by John Hawkesworth and directed by Bill Hayes. It starred Holly Aird and Penelope Wilton as the young and adult Beatrix respectively.^[61]

In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter’s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne. Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor play the title roles.^[62]

Potter is also featured in a series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert. The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm (2004) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.^[63]

Edit] Publications

The 23 Tales

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)
• The Tailor of Gloucester (1903)
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)
• The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)
• The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)
• The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)
• The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)
• The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)
• The Story of Miss Moppet (1906)
• The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907)
• The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
• The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
• The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)
• The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909)
• The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (1910)
• The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911)
• The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912)
• The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913)
• Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917)
• The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)
• Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922)
• The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)

Other books

• Peter Rabbit's Painting Book (1911)
• Tom Kitten's Painting Book (1917)
• Jemima Puddle-Duck's Painting Book (1925)
• Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929 (1928)
• The Fairy Caravan (1929)
• Sister Anne (illustrated by Katharine Sturges) (1932)
• Wag-by-Wall (decorations by J. J. Lankes) (1944)
• The Tale of the Faithful Dove (illustrated by Marie Angel) (1955, 1970)
• The Sly Old Cat (written 1906; first published 1971)
• The Tale of Tuppenny (illustrated by Marie Angel) (1973)

Edit] References

1. ^ "Beatrix Potter Biography on BPotter.com". http://www.bpotter.com/Beatrix.aspx.

2. ^ Lear 2007, p. 10

3. ^ Lear 2007, p. 9

4. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 10–14

5. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 13–24

6. ^ Lear 2007, p. 21

7. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 35–36

8. ^ Lear 2007, p. 19. Rupert came into his father's estate over the course of several years, 1884, 1891 and 1905. The Potters were comfortable but they did not live exclusively on inherited wealth; Lane, (1946) The Tale of Beatrix Potter 1946, p. 1

9. ^ Lear 2007, p. 55

10. ^ Lear 2007, p. 142; Lane, 1978.The Magic Years of Beatrix Potter. Lane depicts Potter’s childhood as much more restricted than either or Potter’s two later biographers. Taylor, Beatrix Potter: Artist Story Teller, Ch 1.; Lear, 2007, pp. 25–48; Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter: From 1881–1897.

11. ^ Lear 2007, p. 31, pp. 37–44, p. 458nn15

12. ^ Judy Taylor, Joyce Irene Whalley, Anne Stevenson Hobbs and Elizabeth Battrick, (1987) Beatrix Potter, 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World, pp.9–17, 35–48; Lear, pp. 25–48.

13. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 26–8, 51

14. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 51–2

15. ^ Potter, The Journal, 1885–1897

16. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 52–3

17. ^ Lear 2007, pp.49–51 cf. also p. 463nn1

18. ^ Potter, "The Journal, 1885–1897"

19. ^ Lear 2007, p. 94 also cf. p. 474nn55

20. ^ Taylor, Artist, Storyteller, pp. 59–61; Elizabeth E. Battrick, (1999) Beatrix Potter: The Unknown Years; Lynn Barber, (1980) The Heyday of Natural History, Brian Gardiner, "Breatrix Potter’s Fossils and Her Interests in Geology", The Linnean, 16/1 (January 2000), 31–47; Lear 2007, pp. 76–103; Potter, Journal, 1891–1897.

21. ^ Lear 2007, p. 98

22. ^ Brian G. Gardiner, "Beatrix Potter's fossils and her interest in Geology," The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 16/1 (January 2000), pp. 31–47

23. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 81–103

24. ^ Lear 2007, p. 117

25. ^ M.A. Taylor and R.H. Rodger, eds. (2003) A Fascinating Acquaintance: Charles McIntosh and Beatrix Potter; Taylor, et al. (1987) Artist and Her World, pp. 71–94; Lear 2007, pp. 104–129; Nicholas P. Money, "Beatrix Potter, Victorian Mycologist", Fungi. 2:4 (Fall 2009); Roy Watling, "Helen Beatrix Potter: Her interest in fungi", The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 16/1 (January 2000), pp. 24–31.

26. ^ "Beatrix Potter and the Linnean Society". Linnean Society. http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=104. Retrieved 1 November 2011.

27. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 104–25

28. ^ Watling, "Helen Beatrix Potter: Her interest in fungi", The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 16/1 (January 2000)

29. ^ Walter Philip Kennedy Findlay, (1967) Wayside & Woodland Fungi

30. ^ Lear 2007, p. 125, p.482nn58

31. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 30–1

32. ^ Lear 2007, p. 95. She liked to memorise his plays by heart.

33. ^ Lear 2007, p. 35. Beatrix said she learnt to read "on" Scott

34. ^ Lear 2007, p. 34

35. ^ Lear 2007, p.131. She began eight Uncle Remus drawings in the same year 1893 she began writing the Peter Rabbit picture letters to Noel Moore, completing the last in 1896.

36. ^ Lear 2007, p. 33

37. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 127–8

38. ^ Taylor, et al., The Artist and her World, pp. 49–70; Potter, Journal, 1884–1897; Humphrey Carpenter (1985), Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children’s Literature.

39. ^ Lear 2007, p.47-8. J.M.W. Turner was the first artist to impress her.

40. ^ Taylor, Artist, Storyteller, pp. 70–95; Taylor, ed. 1989, Beatrix Potters Letters.

41. ^ Taylor, et al. 1987, pp. 107–148; Katherine Chandler, "Thoroughly Post-Victorian, Pre-Modern Beatrix." Children’s Literature Quarterly. 32(4): 287-307.

42. ^ Judy Taylor 1992, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter.

43. ^ Stevenson, Laura C. "A Vogue for Small Books": The Tale of Peter Rabbit and its Contemporary Competitors" [1]

44. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 144-7

45. ^ Hobbs 1989, p. 15

46. ^ Taylor 1996, p. 76

47. ^ Judy Taylor 2002, That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit; Lear 2007, pp. 207-247; Anne Stevenson Hobbs, ed. 1989, Beatrix Potter’s Art: Paintings and Drawings.

48. ^ See Judy Taylor 2002, "That Naughty Rabbit"

49. ^ Lear 2007, pp.198- 201

50. ^ Lear 2007, p. 207

51. ^ Taylor, ed., (2002) Beatrix Potter’s Letters; Hunter Davies, Beatrix Potter’s Lakeland; W.R. Mitchell, Potter: Her Life in the Lake District.

52. ^ John Heelis, (1999) The Tale of Mrs William Heelis – Beatrix Potter; Lear, Ch. 13.

53. ^ Taylor et al. The Artist and Her World, pp. 185–194; Taylor, Artist Storyteller, pp. 105–144.

54. ^ William Rollinson, (1981) How They Lived in the Lake District; Susan Denyer, 1993 Herdwick Sheep Farming; Geoff Brown, (2009) Herdwicks: Herdwick Sheep and the English Lake District; Judy Taylor, ed., (1998) Beatrix Potter’s Farming Friendship. Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop, 1926–1943.

55. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 381-404

56. ^ Jane Morse, ed., (1982) Beatrix Potter’s Americans: Selected Letters; Susan Denyer, (2000) At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit.

57. ^ Heelis, Mrs. William Heelis; Taylor, ed., Beatrix Potter’s Letters.

58. ^ Lear 2007, pp. 405-440; Taylor, ed., Beatrix Potter’s Letters; Taylor, et.al., The Artist and Her World.

59. ^ Bruce L. Thompson, ‘Beatrix Potter’s Gift to the Public'. Country Life (3 March 1944), 370-371; Taylor, et.al., The Artist Storyteller, Ch. 6; Lear 2007, pp. 441-447.

60. ^ Taylor, et al., (2009) The Artist and Her World. Considers Potter's career and life in chapters arranged thematically; The Pitkin Guide to Beatrix Potter.

61. ^ "The Tale of Beatrix Potter". IMDB. http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0264081/.

62. ^ "Miss Potter". IMDB. http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/. Retrieved 13 June 2010.

63. ^ "Cottage Tales". Susan Wittig Albert. http://www.cottagetales.com/books/index.shtml. Retrieved 13 June 2010.

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