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Miss Potter

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	The Enchanting World of Beatrix Potter Limited Edition Hand Painted Bronze Sculpture
	HAND PAINTED BRONZE EDITION - LIMITED TO 500 The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction is delighted to offer this 1/8 scale version of 'The Enchanting World of Beatrix Potter' sculpture. This delightful sculpture was created in 2006 to mark the completion of the new World of Beatrix Potter Attraction. It stands on the terrace at the attraction and is cast in bronze. It was unveiled in the presence of Renee Zellweger during the filming for the movie,'Miss Potter'. The sculpture was created by Anthony Bennett, a Sheffield based artist, who's work can be seen in London's Natural History Museum and in exhibitions from New York to Germany. Anthony has worked alongside many artists, including Turner Prize nominee, Yinka Shonibare. The Statuette stands approx 20 inches in height and features - ~ Three children on top of the statue releasing a figure of Jemima Puddle-duck, symbolising the inspiration Beatrix Potter has given to children from across the world. ~ 20 Characters from Beatrix Potter's tales, including Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. ~ Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's personal diary, written in a secret code, created by the author herself. ~ A figure of a sheep, recognising Beatrix Potter's work to preserve the Herdwick breed native to the Lake District. ~ A bas relief of Beatrix Potter's Lakeland home, Hill Top. All these objects and characters are reproduced in the tiniest detail and each sculpture is issued with a certificate of authenticity and in a limited edition by The World of Beatrix Potter. £599(including postage and packing)
	Price: Ł599.00
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	The Making of Miss Potter
	SPECIAL OFFER... WAS £9.99 NOW £3.99. It took an incredible fourteen years to get the movie 'Miss Potter' from script to screen. But when this story of one of the world's best-loved children's authors finally came to fruition it was with a dream team. Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger, playing Beatrix Potter, and Ewan McGregor as the man Beatrix loved, head a star cast and crew under the direction of Chris Noonan in his first film since 'Babe'. In this book Garth Pearce tells the story of the film's lengthy development. He goes on set to discover how Renee Zellweger approached the role of Beatrix and what it meant to her. And he interviews all the major players, crew, director and producers to reveal what really happens behind the scenes on a movie. Photographer Alex Bailey was present throughout the filming and provides stunning screen shots and a wealth of background images that give the true flavour of the making of the movie 'Miss Potter'.
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	Miss Potter - The Novel
	SPECIAL OFFER... WAS £6.99 NOW £4.99. 'MISS POTTER, YOUR BOOK HAS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT IN MY LIFE. YOU HAVE BEEN... VERY IMPORTANT... IN MY LIFE.' Her imagination and her talent for painting were Miss Potter's only escape from her restricted routine. But then the publication of her children's book propelled her into a new world, where for the first time she experienced success, independence and, most unexpected of all, love. Richard Maltby, Jr first wrote 'Miss Potter' as a film script, which has now been made into a major motion picture starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. For the novel the author expanded the plot-line of the script, blending historical fact with imaginative interpretation to tell the moving story of a remarkable woman's journey to love and fulfilment.
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	Beatrix Potter's Lake District - Gilly Cameron Cooper
	BEATRIX POTTER'S LAKE DISTRICT Gilly Cameron Cooper Forward by Fiona Reynolds, Director General of the National Trust Beatrix Potter first came to the Lake District on holiday in 1882, when she was sixteen. Although she had been born and brought up in London, she instantly felt a deep connection with Lakeland. Later she was to place many of her famous Tales in Lake District settings. After her marriage at the age of forty-seven to Cumbrian solicitor William Heelis, she became a full-time farmer and landowner there. In this book Gilly Cameron Cooper looks at Beatrix Potter's relationship with the Lake District throughout the different stages of her life. She also shows how Beatrix Potter was a pioneer in recognizing the need for enviromental conservation and worked with the newly formed National Trust to preserve the landscape she loved so much. When she died in 1943 Beatrix Potter left over 4,000 acres of land to the National Trust. Today the Trust continues to care for and protect this most highly-prized area of the English countryside. The many photographs in this book from the National Trust Photo Library demonstrate the beauty of Beatrix Potter's Lake District and show how much of her world still remains today, exactly as she would have known it.
	Price: Ł25.00
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	Beatrix Potter's Letters - A Selection by Judy Taylor
	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 presents a collection that reveals the observant, energetic, affectionate and humorous personality 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 correspondance 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.
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	Beatrix Potter's Journal
	Between the ages of fifteen and thirty, Beatrix Potter kept a secret journal written in code. It was not until more than twenty years after her death that the code was cracked by the patient work of Leslie Linder. When the Journal was published, in 1966, it revealed a remarkable picture of upper-middle-class life in late-Victorian Britain. Wriiten with liveliness, humour and at times precocious insight, the Journal reflects the young Beatrix Potter's shrewd judgement of human character and depicts the life of her family and their friends in the world of art and politics. Despite a sheltered upbringing, she shows an awareness of current events and social change and, above all, demonstrates her consuming interest in natural history. The entries also reveal her her talent as a descriptive writer: the keen sense of place and the ability to evoke atmosphere and personality in the minimum of words, which make her stories so memorable, are already present in her delightful descriptions of the landscapes of Perthshire and the Lake District where she spent many childhood summers, and in her perceptive portraits of the local inhabitants. It is but a short step from these pages to the magical world of Mr McGregor's garden.
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	A Victorian Naturalist - Beatrix Potter's Drawings from the Armitt Collection
	One of the most unusual collections of Beatrix Potter's art is held by a small trust in the English Lake District. Beatrix Potter became a member of the Armitt Library in Ambleside, Cumbria, shortly after her marriage in 1913. At this time she was already famous as the creator of Peter Rabbit, but the paintings she donated to the Armitt Library date from the period before she had begun to produce children's books and are on a very different subject. These studies of fossils, archaeological finds, mosses & lichens, microscope drawings and, most importantly, the exceptionally fine fungus paintings comprise a remarkable body of scientific illustration. This book is introduced by Eileen Jay, Honorary President of the Armitt Trust, who describes how the Armitt Library was formed through the influence of a group of gifted and intellectual people and specifically through the achievements of the 3 talented Armitt sisters. Beatrix Potter strongly approved of the Armitt sisters' aims & ideals, particularly their views on the study of natural history and countryside conservation. The pictures she donated to the Library reflect their shared interest. Few details had been known about Beatrix Potter's scientific work until the discovery by Dr Mary Noble of a series of letters between Beatrix & Charles McIntosh, the celebrated Scottish naturalist. In this book Mary Noble has used the correspondance between the two to explain & annotate the paintings. The letters also reveal how Beatrix battled to have her work recognised by the authorities of the day. The humour and spirit with which the young Beatrix Potter 'took on' the male-dominated scientific establishment makes this a delightful story, told here in its entirety for the first time. The book ends with an appraisal of the paintings themselves by Anne Hobbs, curator of the collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. She demonstrates how, as in all Beatrix Potter's work, imagination inspired her scientific observation so that her botanical drawings are 'portraits with personality' and truly works of art.
	Price: Ł35.00
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