In a world of my own..

Rain...rain..and again rain on the Hilltop..a blustery day..so..where better to be then under the rooftop...together with some little friends...in a world of my own..listening to the wind tell its story..and write it down..

The itch to write..

Miss Potter World – covering the life of Beatrix Potter

From the time she was fourteen until she was thirty-one, Beatrix kept a journal, a secret journal written in a code of her own design. Towards the end of her life Beatrix wrote, 'when I was young I already had the itch to write without having any material to write about' (Beatrix, 1966, p.11). After starting the journal, she found plenty to write about, and in her quiet manner she developed her writing skills. She wanted to keep her journal from prying eyes, particularly those of her mother. Although the code was simple it remained undeciphered for eighty years until in 1958 Leslie Linder was able to break the code. Beatrix did admit that later in her life she had some difficulty in reading what she had written

Hunca-Munca..

When Beatrix was five years old, her brother, (Walter) Bertram, was born. Her nurse then left Beatrix to be Bertram's nurse. Because she now was alone in the nursery for much of the time, things were rather dull. Instead of moping and lazing away the days, Beatrix asked one of the family servants, a Mr. Cox, if he would get her a mouse and a box in which to keep it. He obligingly complied, and brought her a mouse and a box that was painted to look like a house. Beatrix named this first pet Hunca Munca, and later Hunca Munca got a husband - Appley Dappley.
Soon after this, a governess was hired for Beatrix. Her name was Miss Hammond, and she encouraged Beatrix's interest in art, especially drawing animals and plants from life. Beatrix showed an active imagination in that many of her drawings featured animals dressed in clothes
( on the playlist..Town mouse and Country mouse)

Shy..

Left in the hands of a governess, Beatrix was gently educated and largely allowed to follow her own passions, which included keeping pets, playing outdoors, and drawing.

For many years, however, it seemed that such circumstances had combined to create a misfit. The young Miss Potter was a shy creature, more comfortable with rabbits and mice than with her peers. Although she once wrote that "a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life," she had no taste for the matchmaking conventions of the time (or for her mother's ambitions for a mate with the right family name) and so the years passed and Potter remained home alone with her parents.

But Potter's time was not wasted. Energetic and impassioned, she continued her scientific studies even as she entertained her small circle of friends and family with drawings of her pets and charming stories about them..
At the picture Bee is 19 years old,holding on her hand a pet mouse...

Silly Sunday..

Beatrix Potter - Stardoll - Fame, fashion and friends

Found something SILLY...for some silliness on sunday

a Lady Mouse

Beatrix Potter
Studies and completed illustrations for Gentleman Mouse and Lady Mouse
[1903]
Beatrix Potter dressed the mice in authentic 18th-century costume, based partially on garments in the V&A’s collections. Gentleman Mouse(Miss Moussie's Hubby) wears court dress, with a tricorne hat. Lady Mouse(Miss Moussie) wears an open cotton gown, red silk quilted petticoat, apron and linen mob cap. The teacups date from about 1800.Pictures taken at the breakfast table of the Dutchess at Hilltop Hall.
No teacups where broken,no mice left without making a mess...FOODFIGHT....

Miss Potter: A Life in Photographs -

Miss Potter: A Life in Photographs - Victoria and Albert Museum: "It was Beatrix's delight to accompany her father on photographic expeditions. Happy to be by his side and excited by the possibilities of the new art form, she also became an avid photographer. She inherited one of her father's old cameras,'a most inconveniently heavy article. Through photography Rupert instructed Beatrix in the art of composition, and like Millais she too took photographs to record details that she would later use in her art"

imagination

"Beatrix Potter has been loved and is important as an artist and writer because in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in book after book, she shows that we don't have to make up a better world. She shows deeply and surprisingly, that seeing the world we meet everyday, factually 'as what it is,' will make for the wonder and excitement that is the beautiful, right imagination of art — the true, proud imagination we want in life! www.peterrabbit.com

Miss Potter

'I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense

Beatrix Potter

Hill Top - The home of Beatrix Potter, Near Sawrey, Cumbria.

Hill Top - The home of Beatrix Potter, Near Sawrey, Cumbria.: "Beatrix wrote many of her famous children's stories in this little 17th century stone house. Characters such as Tom Kitten, Samuel Whiskers and Jemima Puddleduck were all created here, and the books contain many pictures based on the house and garden.
Beatrix bought many pieces of land and property in and around Sawrey, including the Old Post Office, Castle Cottage and a number of small farms. In 1913, aged 47, she married William Heelis in London and moved to Lakeland, living at Castle Cottage which was bigger and more convenient than Hill Top."

I love Bee

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'
Beatrice Potter 28/7/1866 – 22/12/1943)

Beatrix Potter was born on 28 July 1866 in South Kensington, London. She had a sheltered childhood and amused herself by painting, using specimens from the Natural History Museum or sketching from nature in the Lake District, where the family spent summer holidays. Potter always had pets, including rabbits. She never went to school, but was taught at home by a governess. She learned to read from Sir Walter Scott's novels and Maria Edgeworth's works. From the age of fifteen until she was past thirty, she recorded her everyday life in her own secret code-writing.
Beatrix Potter’s children’s books are rooted in her passion for place and the animals she encountered in her life"