Becoming Beatrix: The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780913705148)

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.


Author: Amy M. O'Quinn
ISBN-10: 0913705144
ISBN-13: 9780913705148
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.20w x 0.50d