Book description
Beatrix Potter was a very private person, yet, luckily for us, she was
a prolific letter writer. Through her own words to friends, working
colleagues and children we can discover the observant, energetic,
affectionate and humorous personality she kept hidden from her public.
Her life covers a period of immense social change. The restricted
existence of a dutiful Victorian daughter, the background against which
she first wrote the story of Peter Rabbit, was very different from that
of war-time England where she continued to pioneer countryside
conservation until her death.
