Beatrix Potter

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Beatrix Potter’s tales and illustrations of Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten and friends, set in quintessential English villages and on Edwardian farms, have charmed children for decades. But alongside being an artist and author, Beatrix Potter was a natural scientist, a conservationist, a farmer, sheep-breeder, and shrewd businesswoman. So how did this shy, sheltered Victorian girl become a literary phenomenon? What did it take to succeed in the male dominated world of publishing? Why did she focus so much of her attention on the conservation of the Lake District? And what was the tragedy that might have stopped her career in its tracks? This is a Short History Of Beatrix Potter. A Noiser Production. Written by Fiona Veitch-Smith. With thanks to Libby Joy, from the Beatrix Potter Society. Get every episode of Short History Of a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material, and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.2	Wine52.com forward slash short. It's the end of the summer of 1882, and a maid is standing beside a butler on the marble steps of a luxurious Kensington townhouse.
1:41.3	This is Bolton Gardens, one of the genteel squares of Victorian London.
1:48.0	A clop of hooves and creak of axle alerts the maid to a horse-drawn carriage turning to the square.
1:56.0	She straightens her apron, while the butler steps forward in his pristine black tail suit,
2:01.6	ready to supervise the return of the family of the house from their summer holiday in the Lake
2:06.0	District. The carriage, heavily laden and sitting low on its wheels, comes to a stop.
2:15.9	First to exit are the parents, Helen and Rupert Potter. The maid holds out her arms while they divest themselves with their travelling cloaks and hats and wearily head into the drawing room for tea.
2:28.5	Rushing in after them is ten-year-old Bertram, sporting a tweed frock coat over brown breeches. Friendly as always, he
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