The Society’s greetings cards are blank inside (the postcard is also blank) and are sold in packs of five with envelopes, except for ‘Gentleman Mouse’ and ‘Lady Mouse’ which are sold in mixed packs of six (three of each design). All the cards measure 6 x 4 inches (15.25 x 10.25 cms). Most reproduce images owned by the Society or by Members of the Society, and all are illustrated below and on the cover of the printed Publications List.
BEATRIX POTTER STUDIES
These are a record of the talks given at the Society’s biennial International Study Conferences, which have been held every other year since 1984, and they are the most important of its publications. The papers in them cover a wide range of subjects connected with Beatrix Potter and are by experts in their particular field from both the UK and overseas. The speakers are not necessarily Members of the Society. The material in Beatrix Potter Studies contains much original research and is not readily available elsewhere. All are fully illustrated and, from Studies VII onwards, indexed. (The Index to Volumes I -VI is available separately.) The first two Conferences covered a wide range of topics associated with Beatrix Potter, but later Conferences followed a theme and were given a title.
Studies I (1984 Conference, Ambleside), 1985, reprinted 1992 ISBN 1 869980 00 X
‘Beatrix Potter and the National Trust’, Christopher Hanson-Smith (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter the Writer’, Brian Alderson (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter the Artist’, Irene Whalley (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter Collections in the British Isles’, Anne Stevenson Hobbs (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter Collections in America’, Jane Morse (USA)
‘Beatrix Potter and her Funguses’, Mary Noble (UK)
‘An Introduction to the film The Tales of Beatrix Potter’, Jane Pritchard (UK)
Studies II (1986 Conference, Ambleside) 1987 ISBN 1 869980 01 8
‘Lake District Natural History and Beatrix Potter’, John Clegg (UK)
‘The Beatrix Potter Collection at The Free Library of Philadelphia: The First Forty Years’, Howell J Heaney (USA)
‘Collecting Beatrix Potter’, Doris Frohnsdorff (USA)
‘Beatrix Potter Piracies and Sequels’, Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
‘Bertram Potter and the Scottish Borders’, Liz Taylor (UK)
‘The Herdwick Sheep of Cumbria’, Christopher Hanson-Smith (UK)
Studies III Beatrix Potter Before Peter Rabbit (1988 Conference, Perth), 1989 ISBN 1 869980 02 6
‘Children’s Books during the Childhood of Beatrix Potter’, Ruari Mclean (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter and the Anthropomorphic Impulse’, Lionel Lambourne (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter before “Peter Rabbit”: Her Art Work’, Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter’s Writings: Some Literary and Linguistic Influences - with a Scottish Slant’, Anne Stevenson Hobbs (UK)
‘The Potters on Holiday’, Judy Taylor (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter and Perthshire Natural History’, Michael A Taylor (UK)
‘Scotland and Perthshire in the Nineteenth Century’, Mary Noble (UK)
Studies IV Beatrix Potter and Mrs Heelis (1990 Conference, Lancaster), 1991 ISBN 1 869980 05 0
‘Beatrix Potter and her Lake District’, Christopher Hanson-Smith (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter through her Letters’, Judy Taylor (UK)
‘American Discoveries’, Jane Morse (USA)
‘Hawkshead and the Heelis Family’, John Heelis (UK)
‘Mrs Heelis Settles In’, Elizabeth Battrick (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter and the Monk Coniston Estate’, Susan Denyer (UK)
‘The Making of Beatrix - The Early Life of Beatrix Potter’, Mike Healey (UK)
Studies V Beatrix Potter’s Little Books (1992 Conference, Ambleside), 1993 ISBN 1 869980 06 9
‘The Case of Peter Rabbit (and Others): some reflections on “the impossibility of children’s fiction”’, Brian Alderson (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter in Japan’, Ruriko M Otsuki (Japan)
‘The Little Books: Protocols of Reading’, Margaret Meek (UK)
‘American Reactions to Beatrix Potter and Her Little Books’, Betsy Wilkens (USA)
‘Beatrix Potter in France’, Janie Coitit-Godfrey (France)
‘A Personal Response to the Book Pictures of Beatrix Potter’, Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
Studies VI Beatrix Potter’s Attitudes and Enthusiasms (1994 Conference, Ambleside), 1995 ISBN 1 869980 10 7
‘Beatrix Potter as Observer and Recorder of the Social Scene’, Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter: One of Nature’s Conservatives’, Robert Leeson (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter and the London Art Scene in the 1880s and 1890s’, Michael Wilson (UK)
‘Heck, Mell and Bink: Cross-passages between Lakeland Farmhouses and the American Colonies’, Victoria Slowe (UK)
‘The Humour of Beatrix Potter’, Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
Beatrix Potter Studies: Index to Volumes I - VI, Elaine Jacobsen and Veronica Simmons,1998
Studies VII Beatrix Potter and the Lake District (1996 Conference, Ambleside), 1997 ISBN 1 869980 12 3
‘On Location with Beatrix Potter’, John Nettleton (UK)
‘Lakeland Folklore and Traditions’, William Rollinson (UK)
‘Canon Rawnsley and The National Trust’, Elizabeth Battrick (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter and the Decorative Arts’, Susan Denyer (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter’s American Neighbour, Rebecca Owen’, Jane Crowell Morse (USA)
‘The Fairy Caravan “Explained”’, Karen Lightner (USA)
‘Americans Look at Beatrix Potter’, Elaine R Jacobsen (USA)
Studies VIII Beatrix Potter as Writer and Illustrator (1998 Conference, Ambleside), 1999 ISBN 1 869980 15 8
‘Beatrix Potter’s Fiction: Real Stories for Real Children’, Nicholas Tucker (UK)
‘Animal Stories since Beatrix Potter and her Influence on the Genre’, Peter Hollindale (UK)
‘How Beatrix Potter’s Childhood Reading Influenced her Writing Style’, Dale Schafer (USA)
‘Natural Companions: Text and Illustrations in the Work of Beatrix Potter’, Catherine J Golden (USA)
‘Beatrix Potter and the Illustration of Children’s Books’, Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter as Letter Writer’, Judy Taylor (UK)
Studies IX Working on the Beatrix Potter Jigsaw (2000 Conference, Ambleside), 2001 ISBN 1 869980 19 0
‘Checking the Record: The Beatrix Potter Society in Retrospect’, Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
‘Keeping the Pieces Together: the Beatrix Potter Jigsaw in the United Kingdom’, Judy Taylor (UK)
‘Context and Content: Working on Beatrix Potter’s Art’, Anne Stevenson Hobbs (UK)
‘Pieces of the Jigsaw - Beatrix Potter’s Art in the United States’, Betsy Bray (USA)
‘Beatrix Potter and Natural History’, Peter Hollindale (UK)
‘Mischievous Mushrooms: Beatrix Potter’s affair with fungi - facts and misunderstandings’, Roy Watling (UK)
‘Pleasant Visits: Beatrix Potter and Americans’, Jane Crowell Morse (USA)
‘It all started at Wray’, Christopher Hanson-Smith (UK)
‘Restoring the Countryside Legacy’, Paul Farrington (UK)
Studies X Where Next, Peter Rabbit? (2002 Conference, Ambleside), 2003 ISBN 1 869980 20 4
‘”A Vogue for Small Books”: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and its Contemporary Competitors’, Laura C Stevenson (USA)
‘The Typographic Adventures of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’, Douglas Martin (UK)
‘The Frederick Warne Archive and Beatrix Potter’, Elizabeth Booth (UK)
‘The Challenge of Reading Beatrix Potter’
‘Reading Beatrix Potter in the UK’, Lynne McGeachie (UK)
‘Reading Beatrix Potter in the United States’, Dale Schafer (USA)
‘Developing Children’s Responses to the “Little Books” using Worksheets’, Bridget Welsh Donaldson (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter Overseas’
‘Peter Rabbit in Russian’, Nina Demourova (Russia)
‘A Case of Distortions’, Shin-ichi Yoshida (Japan)
‘The Perils Peter Rabbit has Faced in Lithuania’, Kestutis Urba (Lithuania)
‘Beatrix Potter’s Side Shows’, Nicholas Durbridge (UK)
‘Gardening with Beatrix Potter’, Peter Parker (UK)
Studies XI Beatrix Potter’s Family and Friends (2004 Conference, Birnam), 2005 ISBN 1 869980 22 0
‘The Potters’ Perthshire Holiday Homes and Surroundings’ and ‘The Significance of Dalguise for Beatrix Potter’, David C Duncan (UK)
‘A Genial Man: Edmund Potter and his Calico Printing Work’, Rowena Godfrey (UK)
‘The Potters in London’, Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
‘Canon Rawnsley - Europe’s “most active volcano”!’, John Nettleton (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter and the Moores’, Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
‘Beatrix Potter’s American Friends’, Lolly Robinson (USA)
‘Beatrix Potter’s Dogs’, Betsy Bray (USA)
Studies XII Beatrix Potter: Sources of her Inspiration (2006 Conference, Ambleside), 2007 ISBN 978 1 869980 24 5
‘Beatrix Potter’s Prose Style’, Peter Hollindale (UK)
‘Art into Books’, Anne Stevenson Hobbs (UK)
‘Sources on the Nursery Bookshelf’, Brian Alderson (UK)
‘”Every Stone, Every Tree”: “Thorough” Nature in Beatrix Potter’s Little Books’, Katherine R Chandler (USA)
‘The Lake District Landscape - Inspirational or Just Important?’, John Cawood
‘”An Affectionate Companion and a Quiet Friend”: Beatrix’s Pets as Sources of her Inspiration’, Judy Taylor (UK)
Studies XIII Beatrix Potter: Fables to Faeries (2008 Conference, Ambleside), 2009 ISBN 978 1 869980 25 2
‘Tekkin’ a Trip’, Brian Alderson (UK)
‘Fairy Fungi and Fairy Rings: Beatrix Potter and Victorian Fairy Painting’, Katja Robinson (UK)
‘Hey diddle dinketty: Beatrix Potter and Nursery Rhymes’, Lolly Robinson (USA)
‘The Art of the Potter Family: the Duke Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum’, Emma Laws (UK)
‘Baba Yaga and the Gentleman with Sandy-coloured Whiskers: Beatrix Potter and the Traditional Fairy Tale’, Nina De Demourova (Russia)
‘Beatrix Potter’s Gypsies, Caravans, and Travelling Circuses’, Suzanne Terry (USA)
BEATRIX POTTER US STUDIES
The first International Study Conference in America took place at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2005.
US Studies I Beatrix Potter in America (2005 Conference, Amherst), 2006 ISBN 1 869980 23 9
‘Bertha Mahony Miller: Friend and Bookwoman’, Lolly Robinson (USA)
‘The Beatrix Potter Collection in The Free Library of Philadelphia’, Karen Lightner (USA)
‘Peter Rabbit Finds Mercury in Retrograde: The Story of “The Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen”’, Ivy Trent (USA)
‘Telling her Life: Biographical Perspectives on Beatrix Potter’, Judy Taylor (UK), Susan Wittig Albert (USA) and Linda Lear (USA), led by Jane Crowell Morse (USA)
‘Peter Rabbit Piracies in America’, Carol Halebian (USA)
‘In the Garden with Peter Rabbit and Friends’, Jan Powers (USA)
‘Reading Beatrix Potter in the United States’, Dale Schafer (USA)
‘Introducing Beatrix Potter in the United States’, Barbara Diment (USA)
OTHER SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
From time to time the Society publishes others works of interest and research. They are listed here in order of their publication.
Peter Rabbit’s Other Tale, with illustrations by Beatrix Potter and verses by her friend Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, Introduction by Irene Whalley, 1989, 1996 ISBN 1 869980 03 4
This little book contains the verse form of The Tale of Peter Rabbit written by Canon Rawnsley. The facsimile is based on a manuscript in the Society’s possession containing the verses written out by Leslie Linder and accompanied by the black-and-white illustrations from Beatrix’s privately-printed 1901 edition.
Peter Rabbit and the Child Psychologist: some further adventures, Nicholas Tucker, 1989
ISBN 1 869980 04 2
The text of the Sixth Linder Memorial Lecture (1986)
A Beatrix Potter Photograph Album, Introduction by Irene Whalley, 1993 ISBN 1 869980 07 7
This booklet was published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s death in December 1943. It contains a number of previously unpublished photographs taken by Rupert Potter, from glass negatives in the Society’s possession.
Cottage and Farmhouse Detail in Beatrix Potter’s Lake District, Audrey Parker, 1993, 2001
ISBN 1 869980 08 5
This is based on a talk given to the Society in 1990 and is illustrated throughout in black and white.
The Choyce Letters: Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce 1916-1943, edited by Judy Taylor, 1994
ISBN 1 869980 09 3
These letters are published with the permission of Louie Choyce’s nephew, who owns them, and has written the Introduction to this volume. They revealed much that is new about Beatrix’s life during this period. Illustrated with photographs and sketches.
Beatrix Potter: A Holiday Diary, with a Short History of the Warne Family, edited by
Judy Taylor, 1996 ISBN 1 869980 11 5
This diary was bought by the Society in 1994. Written by Beatrix Potter in 1905 while on holiday in Wales, shortly after she became engaged to Norman Warne, it also covers her reaction to his death. Illustrated with photographs, sketches and watercolours.
Beatrix Potter’s Farming Friendship: Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop 1926-1943,
edited by Judy Taylor, 1998 ISBN 1 869980 13 1
These letters to her shepherd reveal much about Beatrix’s farming matters and the final letter, written ten days before she died, is owned by the Society. The volume contains a biography of Joseph Moscrop by his niece Rosalind Moscrop, a history of Troutbeck Park Farm by Judy Taylor and ‘The Fell Farmer’s Year’ by Christopher Hanson-Smith. Illustrated throughout.
Through the Pages of My Life and My Encounters with Beatrix Potter, Willow Taylor, 2000,
2005 ISBN 1 869980 17 4
Willow Taylor grew up in Sawrey when Beatrix Potter was still alive and lived there for much of her life. Her memoirs tell of that time and of the changes that have taken place since. Illustrated with photographs. Highly Commended - Lakeland Book of the Year Awards 2001.
Aesop in the Shadows, Peter Hollindale, 2000 ISBN 1 869980 18 2
This is the text of the 1997 Linder Memorial Lecture and is reprinted by permission of the Editor of Signal, where it appeared in May 1999. The title is taken from the dedication to The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse.
The Tale o Peter Kinnen, bi Beatrix Potter, owerset intae Scots bi Lynne McGeachie, 2004,
2006, 2010 ISBN 978 1 869980 21 4
This translation into Lowland Scots of The Tale of Peter Rabbit is also available as a CD, read
by Lynne McGeachie, and the book and CD can be purchased as a set.
Beatrix Potter: Thirty Years of Discovery and Appreciation, edited by Libby Joy and Judy
Taylor, 2010 ISBN 978 1 869980 26 9
This fully-illustrated selection of previously unpublished talks given to the Society was published to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. It includes the first ever Linder Memorial Lecture, given by Margaret Lane in 1981.
‘The Beatrix Potter Society 1980-2010’, Joyce Irene Whalley
‘The Secret World of Beatrix Potter’ (1981), Margaret Lane
‘Clothes Illustrated by Beatrix Potter’ (1988), Avril Hart
‘Beatrix Potter - Book Designer’ (1990), Gail Engert
‘Pigling Bland and the Eternal Verities’ (1999), Marian Werner
‘The Potters and Photography’ (2000), Michael Wilson
‘The Linder Family and the Enid Linder Foundation’ (2005), Jack Ladevèze
‘Beatrix Potter’s Furniture’ (2006), Bernard (Bill) Cotton
‘John and Jane Leech in Stalybridge’ (2006), Rowena Godfrey
‘Beatrix Potter’s Mentors: The Men in her Life’ (2008), Linda Lear
‘Beatrix Potter’s Unitarian Context’ (2008), Clifford Reed
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND NON-SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Included here are some items available to Members only (and marked as such). Occasionally we stock a small range of books not published by the Society, but which may be difficult to obtain through bookshops and online, and any listed here also appear on the Society’s Order Form. In addition, we run a book stall at all our Meetings and Conferences where we carry a wider range of merchandise and non-society publications (especially books by Members).
Special Jubilee Bookmark depicting Miss Moppet’s Mouse and woven by Cash’s exclusively for the Beatrix Potter Society’s twenty-fifth anniversary
Newsletter Binders: cordex, self-binding cases in blue, designed to hold 24 issues of the Newsletter; titled in silver and featuring the Society’s ‘Mouse Reading’ logo
Newsletter back numbers are also available via the Order Form or website, together with Newsletter Cumulative Indexes, compiled by Elaine Jacobsen and Rowena Godfrey (Numbers 1-50, Numbers 51-60, Numbers 61-80, Numbers 81-90, Numbers 91-100 and Numbers 101-10)
Near Sawrey: An illustrated map with descriptive text, research and text by Marian Werner; illustrations by Richard Pearson, 1999
Issued in a limited edition to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Society, this map shows all the places in Sawrey associated with Beatrix Potter and is accompanied by explanatory notes
The Society Badge (available to Members only) is oval and enamelled in pink and cream with gold lettering, depicting the Society’s ‘Mouse Reading’ logo and the name of the Society
List of Members (available to Members only) issued annually in July, and may not be used for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without prior permission from the Society’s Committee
A Fascinating Acquaintance: Charles McIntosh and Beatrix Potter, their common bond in the Natural History of the Dunkeld area, Michael Taylor and Robin Rodger, Perth Museum and Art Gallery (sponsored by the Beatrix Potter Society), 1989, updated 1995, revised edition 2003 ISBN 0 907495 23 0
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