![]() Her gallantly perfect language demonstrates the unwavering control with which she presented herself “In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets – when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.” (In respectful observance of her constant mission to explain let’s note that “paduasoy” comes from peau de soie, literally “skin of silk,” and is a French medieval grosgrain fabric.) Hail her superb drawing of flora and fauna note, however, that she had lesser skill drawing humans. Fenton and he answered, “Don’t ask the poet, ask the poem.” Therefore - go thou and do likewise with Beatrix Potter, and you will find – to take some examples - a self-containment brought on by nursery loneliness see the inner space in her work: note the predominance of interiors. ![]() The biographer has produced a comprehensive tale of Potter, her very Victorian upbringing, her tragic disappointments and her happiness in her latter years. Helen Beatrix Potter ( J December 22, 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist. She illustrated her own books but also did detailed drawings of fungi. The money inherited from the Lancashire cotton industry enabled the Potters to live comfortably. The families of both her parents had their origins in the industrialised north of England. She lived with her mother Helen, her father Rupert, and her younger brother Bertram. ![]() Beatrix was born in South Kensington, London on 28 July 1866. Beatrix Potter is best known as the creator of Peter Rabbit and other favourite animal characters. Beatrix Potter was an amazing woman, not only a writer of childrens tales but a very good artist. Beatrix Potter was born in London on 28 July 1866 as Helen Beatrix Potter. Some years ago, when I was presenting Radio Four’s Poetry Please, a listener left a message at the BBC with a question for James Fenton as to the meaning of one of his poems. Helen Beatrix Potter was a famous author of the early 20th century.
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