By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A collection of correspondence sent from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop. The letters begin in 1926, two years after Beatrix Potter began farming at Troutbeck Park, until the week before she died. Joseph Moscrop was the shepherd who came down every year from the Scottish Borders to help with the lambing at Troutbeck Park Farm. These letters begin just as Beatrix was taking over the running of this large farm, and are mainly concerned with farming matters. The final letter is Beatrix’s moving farewell to Joseph written just ten days before she died. There is a short biography of her uncle by Rosalind Moscrop, an outline history of Troutbeck Park Farm by Judy Taylor, and ‘The Fell Farmer’s Year’ by Christopher Hanson-Smith.

By Wynne Bartlett, Joyce Irene Whalley
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A fascinating look at the beautiful Derwentwater area as Beatrix Potter depicted it in her sketches and books, and as it appears today. Detailed routes are included for three walks starting from Keswick so readers can explore the marvelous scenery found in the stories of Benjamin Bunny, Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs. Tiggy-winkle. A wealth of background information about these 'Tales' and their creator is also given. Paintings and sketches by Beatrix Potter and photographs both old and new (including several by Beatrix's father, Rupert) make this an invaluable book for visitors to the Lake District, and all those who know and love Peter Rabbit and his friends

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A compilation of papers from the Beatrix Potter Society's first Study Conference in July of 1984. Each paper reflects Beatrix Potter's activities and sheds new light on her work and achievements. Includes: Beatrix Potter and the National Trust by Christopher Hanson-Smith; Beatrix Potter - The Writer by Brian Alderson; Beatrix Potter - The Artist by Irene Whalley; Beatrix Potter Collections in the British Isles by Anne Stevenson Hobbes; Beatrix Potter Collections in America by Jane Morse; Beatrix Potter and her Funguses by Mary Noble; An Introduction to the Film "The Tales of Beatrix Potter" by Jane Pritchard

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A compilation of papers from the Beatrix Potter Society's second Study Conference in July 1986. Includes: Lake District Natural History and Beatrix Potter by John Clegg; The Armitt Trust Appeal; The Beatrix Potter Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia: The First Forty Years by Howell J. Heaney; Collecting Beatrix Potter by Doris Frohnsdorff; Beatrix Potter Piracies and Sequels by Selwyn Goodacre; Bertram Potter and the Scottish Borders by Liz Taylor; The Herdwick Sheep of Cumbria by Christopher Hanson-Smith

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Issued at Beatrix Potter Studies III. Compilation of seven papers presented at The Beatrix Potter Society Conference in July 1988. Includes "Children's Books during the Childhood of Beatrix Potter" by Ruari McLean; "Beatrix Potter before Peter Rabbit: Her Art Work" by Joyce Irene Whalley; and "The Potters on Holiday" by Judy Taylor. Illustrated by photographs and drawings.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Issued as Beatrix Potter Studies IV. Seven papers presented at the Beatrix Potter Society Conference in July, 1990, including "Mrs. Heelis Settles In" by Elizabeth Battrick; "Hawkshead and the Heelis Family" by Brigadier John Heelis. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Issued as Beatrix Potter Studies V. Six papers presented at the Beatrix Potter Society Conference in July, 1992, including "The Case of Peter Rabbit (and Others): some reflectons on 'the impossibility of children's fiction'" by Brian Alderson; "Beatrix Potter in Japan" by Ruriko M Otsuki; "The Little Books: Protocols of Reading" by Maragert Meek; "American Reactions to Beatrix Potter and Her Little Books" by Betsy Wilkens; "Beatrix Potter in France" by Janie Coitit-Godfrey; and "A Personal Response to the Book Pictures of Beatrix Potter" by Selwyn Goodacre. Illustrated with photographs, and drawings.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A compilation of papers from The Beatrix Potter Society's International Study Conference of July 1994, focusing on the complexities of Potter's character, based on her attitudes and enthusiasms. Includes: Beatrix Potter as Observer and Recorder of the Social Scene by Joyce Irene Whalley; Beatrix Potter: One of Nature's Conservatives by Robert Leeson; Beatrix Potter and the London Art Scene in the 1880s and 1890s by Michael Wilson; Heck, Mell and Bink: Cross-passages between Lakeland Farmhouses and the American Colonies by Victoria Slowe; The Humor of Beatrix Potter by Selwyn Goodacre

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Every alternate year since 1984 the Beatrix Potter Society has held an International Study Conference in the Lake District or Scotland. The 1996 Conference took place over a whole week, with visits and talks covering a wide range of topics connecting Beatrix Potter and the Lake District, her home for nearly forty years. The published talks for the most part reflect this concentration on Lake District themes. Includes: "On Location with Beatrix Potter" by John Nettleton, "Lakeland Folklore and Traditions" by William Rollinson, "Canon Rawnsley and The National Trust" by Elizabeth Battrick, "Beatrix Potter and the Decorative Arts" by Susan Denyer, "Beatrix Potter's American Neighbour, Rebecca Owen" by Jane Crowell Morse, "The Fairy Caravan 'Explained'" by Karen J. Lightner, and "Americans Look at Beatrix Potter" by Elaine R. Jacobsen. Publication of The Beatrix Potter Society.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A compilation of papers from The Beatrix Potter Society's International Study Conference of November 2005. This conference was a celebration of the Beatrix Potter Society's twenty-fifth anniversary and also the first ever US Study Conference, held at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

Includes: Bertha Mahony Miller: Friend and Bookwoman by Lolly Robinson; The Beatrix Potter Collection in The Free Library of Philadelphia by Karen Lightner; Peter Rabbit Finds Mercury in Retrograde: The story of 'The Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen' by Ivy Trent; Telling Her Life: Biographical Perspectives on Beatrix Potter by Judy Taylor, Susan Wittig Albert and Linda Lear; Peter Rabbit Piracies in America by Carol Halebian; In The Garden with Peter Rabbit and Friends by Jay Powers; Reading Beatrix Potter in the United States by Dale Schafer; Introducing Beatrix Potter in the United States by Barbara Dimment

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

The eighth volume in the series of Beatrix Potter Studies, containing the most important talks given at the Beatrix Potter Society's International Study Conference. This compilation concentrates on the very foundations of Beatrix Potter's fame. Includes: Beatrix Potter's Fiction: Real Stories for Real Children by Nicholas Tucker; Animal Stories since Beatrix Potter and her Influence on the Genre by Peter Hollindale; How Beatrix Potter's Childhood Reading Influenced her Writing Style by Dale Schafer; Natural Companions: Text and Illustration in the Work of Beatrix Potter by Catherine J. Golden; Beatrix Potter and the Illustration of Children's Books by Joyce Irene Whalley; Beatrix Potter as Letter Writer by Judy Taylor

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Issued as Beatrix Potter Studies X. Eleven papers presented at the Beatrix Potter Society Conference in August 2002, including "A Vogue for Small Books': The Tale of Peter Rabbit and its Contemporary Competitors" by Laura C. Stevenson; "Reading Beatrix Potter in the United States" by Dale Schaefer; and "The Perils Peter Rabbit Has Faced in Lithuania" by Kestutis Urba. Illustrated with worksheets, photographs, and drawings.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Issued as the Beatrix Potter Studies XI. Compilation of eight papers presented at The Beatrix Potter Society Conference in August 2004. Includes "The Potters in London" by Joyce Irene Whalley; "The Potters' Perthshire Holiday Homes and Surroundings" by David C. Duncan; and "Beatrix Potter's American Friends" by Lolly Robinson. Illustrated by photographs and drawings.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

In 1916, Beatrix Potter wrote to The Times about the shortage of labour on small farms in wartime. As a result of this letter, Louie Choyce went to work for her and a friendship developed which lasted until Beatrix’s death in 1943. With the permission of Louie Choyce’s nephew, who owns the letters, and with his Introduction, the Society has published all thirty-eight of the letters from Beatrix Potter to his aunt. They reveal much that is new about Beatrix Potter’s life during the period covered by the correspondence. Illustrated with photographs and sketches.

By Audrey Parker
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A printed version of the talk given in 1990, this booklet is illustrated with pictures taken from the little books, and shows Beatrix?s own interest in early domestic details.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Bought by the Society at Sotheby’s in 1994, the Diary was written by Beatrix Potter in 1905 while on holiday with her family in Wales, and it spans the last two weeks of the life of her fiancé and editor Norman Warne. An introduction sets the scene, and there is a short history of the Warne Family by Judy Taylor based on unpublished diaries and letters. Illustrated with photographs and sketches, and with seven of Beatrix Potter’s watercolours reproduced in color.

By Peter Hollindale
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

This is the text of Peter Hollindale's Linder Memorial Lecture for The Beatrix Potter Society, delivered at the Royal Entomological Society, London, in May 1997. It is reprinted by the permission of the Editor of Signal, where it appeared in Number 89, May 1999. In his talk Peter Hollindale has tried to show that everywhere in Potter's work we find both the artist and the natural scientist. The title is taken from the dedication to The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse and used to depict yet another fascinating aspect of Beatrix Potter's work.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Willow Taylor

Winner of a Lakeland Book of the Year award in 2001. For over seventy years Willow Taylor (nee Burns) lived in the small Lake District village of Near Sawrey. As the daughter of the landlord of the Tower Bank Arms, she grew up as part of the village. In those days Sawrey possessed a shop, a confectioners, a smithy, a carpenter, a timber merchant, a post office and five working farms, one of which was Hill Top, owned by Mrs. William Heelis, better known by the rest of the world as Beatrix Potter. In her memoirs, Willow Taylor recalls her childhood in Sawrey when Beatrix Potter was alive, and tells of the changes that have taken place since. Her account is illustrated with photographs.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Charles McIntosh and Beatrix Potter - their common bond in the natural history of the Dunkeld area. Most people will have heard of Beatrix Potter, the writer of children's stories. Far fewer will recognize the name of Charles McIntosh, the rural postman from Inver, near Dunkeld. These two very different individuals, brought together by a common interest in fungi, met and subsequently exchanged letters and specimens over a number of years. This is the story of their fascinating acquaintance.

By Nicholas Tucker
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

The text of the Sixth Linder Memorial Lecture given by writer, broadcaster and educational psychologist Nicholas Tucker. Do not be put off by the title: his talk makes interesting and amusing reading. Publication of The Beatrix Potter Society.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

An illustrated map with descriptive text of the small village at the heart of England's Lake District where Beatrix Potter lived the last thirty years of her life. Many of her stories from as early as 1905 were set in this location.

By Judy Taylor
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A compilation of all the letters Beatrix Potter wrote to children, including the famous picture letters, with biographical information about the recipients.

By Judy Taylor
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter achieved considerable prominence as a children's book author in her own lifetime but she always shunned personal publicity. However she was a prolific letter-writer and Judy Taylor, author of the biography Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman, here presents a collection that reveals the observant, energetic, affectionate and humorous personaility Beatrix Potter kept hidden from her public. There are enchanting picture-letters written to entertain child friends, juxtaposed with serious accounts of botanical research. The publishing process of her children's books is discussed in the correspondence with her editor, Norman Warne, to whom she eventually became engaged to be married. And from her later years come joyful descriptions of her new experiences as a Lake District farmer and pioneer of countryside conservation. Her life, from 1866 to 1943, covers a period of immense social change. Judy Taylor's selection of letters, linked by her informative annotations, gives a fascinating view of the development of the early twentieth century as well as the life story of a truly remarkable woman.

By Judy Taylor
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

As a publishing phenomenon Peter Rabbit is fascinating. First issued in 1901 in a simple black-and-white edition, paid for and published privately by the author, it was accepted for wider publication by Frederick Warne the following year, only after Beatrix Potter had been persuaded to redo all the illustrations in colour. In the first year of its publication it sold over twenty thousand copies and has remained a bestseller ever since. Peter Rabbit's image can now be found on merchandise all over the world. However, this is not a recent trend, as many people assume, but a direction t aken as long ago as 1903, when Beatrix Potter herself made the first Peter Rabbit doll and encouraged the development of what she called her "side-shows." In this book, Judy Taylor traces the extraordinary publishing history of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and at the same time tells the story of its famous creator. This new edition celebrates the centenary of the first publication of the Tale by Frederick Warne in 1902.

By The Beatrix Potter Society
Illustrated by Beatrix Potter

A compilation of papers from the Beatrix Potter Society's Ninth Study Conference in July 2000, concentrating on the serious side of Beatrix Potter's work and including much new material about Potter's life and work.