Beatrix Potter
Subtitle: her inner world
By: by Andrew Norman
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781781591918
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: English Women novelists; Biography; English Novelists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208).
Table of contents: title: 1 Beatrix's father, Rupert; title: 2 Beatrix's mother, Helen; title: 3 Beatrix's brother, Bertram; title: 4 Home tuition: Sir Walter Scott: Beatrix's nature; title: 5 Art: a suitable pursuit for a woman; title: 6 The Reverend William Gaskell; title: 7 A deterioration in health; title: 8 Sir John Millais; title: 9 Dr James Martineau: Beatrix and religion; title: 10 Beatrix in her twenties; title: 11 Charles McIntosh; title: 12 Sir Henry Roscoe: Kew: Sir William Thiselton-Dyer; title: 13 George Massee and the Linnean Society of London; title: 14 Art: anthropomorphism: first encounters with publishers; title: 15 Noel Moore and the 'Picture letter'; title: 16 Norman Warne; title: 17 Norman's tragic death; title: 18 The secret of Beatrix's success; title: 19 Beatrix and politics: Mr W.E. Gladstone; title: 20 The allure of the Lake District: a new love; title: 21 William Heelis; title: 22 Mrs Potter's latter years; title: 23 The fortunes and misfortunes of Bertram; title: 24 The influence of the Reverend Hardwicke Rawnsley; title: 25 Harold Warne; title: 26 The Fairy Caravan; title: 27 Sheep: Joseph Moscrop; title: 28 Another war; title: 29 The death of Beatrix; title: 30 Beatrix: the traditional view is challenged.