The Tale o Peter Kinnen. Owerset intae Scots bi Lynne McGeachie. July 2004
This translation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, with the text in Scots, was launched at the opening reception of the Society’s Eleventh International Study Conference in Birnam, Perthshire, on 16 July 2004. It is in the same format, with re-originated full colour illustrations and type, as the edition published in 2002 by Frederick Warne to celebrate the first publication of the book in 1902.
Hardback 5.75 x 4.5 ins. 72 pages ISBN 1 869980 21 2
A CD-R recording of Lynne McGeachie reading the Tale o Peter Kinnen is also available.
Peter
Rabbits
Other Tale, with illustrations by Beatrix Potter and verses by
her friend Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. (Introduction by Irene
Whalley)
1989, Third Impression 1996.
The original verse form of the Tale written by Canon Rawnsley
at a time when Beatrixs own prose version was being rejected
by publishers. This facsimile, based on a manuscript in the
Societys
possession, has black and white illustrations from the privately
printed edition, with the verses written out by Leslie Linder.
ISBN
I 869980 03 4
Peter Rabbit and the Child Psychologist: some further adventures.
By Nicholas Tucker. 1989
The text of the Sixth Linder Memorial Lecture given by writer,
broadcaster and educational psychologist Nicholas Tucker. Do
not
be put off by the title: his talk makes interesting and amusing
reading.
ISBN I 869980 04 2
A Beatrix Potter Photograph
Album: A selection of family photographs taken by her father Rupert
Potter. (Introduction by Irene Whalley) 1993
Issued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Beatrix Potters
death in December 1943, this booklet contains a number of previously
unpublished photographs from glass negatives in the Societys
possession.
ISBN I 869980 07 7
Cottage
and Farmhouse Detail in Beatrix Potters Lake District.
By Audrey Parker. 1993
A printed version of the talk given in 1990, this booklet is
illustrated with pictures taken from the little books, andshows
Beatrixs
own interest in early domestic details.
ISBN I 869980 08 5
The Choyce Letters: Beatrix
Potter to Louie Choyce, 1916-1943. Edited by Judy Taylor. 1994
In 1916, Beatrix Potter wrote to The Times about the shortage
of labour on small farms in wartime. As a result of this letter,
Louie Choyce went to work for her and a friendship developed
which
lasted until Beatrixs death in 1943. With the permission
of Louie Choyces nephew, who owns the letters, and with
his Introduction, the Society has published all thirty-eight of
the letters from Beatrix Potter to his aunt. They reveal much
that is new about Beatrix Potters life during the period
covered by the correspondence.
Illustrated with photographs and
sketches.
ISBN I 869980 09 3
Beatrix Potter:
A Holiday Diary, with a short history of the Warne family.
Edited by Judy
Taylor. 1996
Bought by the Society at Sothebys in 1994, the Diary was
written by Beatrix Potter in 1905 while on holiday with her
family
in Wales, and it spans the last two weeks of the life of her
fiancé
and editor Norman Warne. An introduction sets the scene, and
there is a short history of the Warne Family by Judy Taylor
based on
unpublished diaries and letters. Illustrated with photographs
and sketches, and with seven of Beatrix Potters watercolours
reproduced in colour. ISBN I 869980 11 5
Beatrix
Potters
Farming Friendship: Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop,
1926-1943.
Edited by Judy Taylor. 1998
Joseph Moscrop was the shepherd who came down every year
from the Scottish Borders to help with the lambing at Troutbeck
Park
Farm. These letters begin just as Beatrix was taking over the
running of this large farm, and are mainly concerned with farming
matters. The final letter is Beatrixs moving farewell to
Joseph written just ten days before she died. There is a short
biography of her uncle by Rosalind Moscrop, an outline history
of Troutbeck Park Farm by Judy Taylor, and The Fell Farmers
Year by Christopher Hanson-Smith. Illustrated
ISBN I 869980 13 1
Through The
Pages of My Life, and my Encounters with Beatrix Potter,
By Willow Taylor.
2000
Winner of a Lakeland Book of the Year award
in 2001.
For over seventy years Willow Taylor (nee Burns) lived in the
small Lake District village of Near Sawrey. As the daughter of
the landlord of the Tower Bank Arms, she grew up as part of the
village. In those days Sawrey possessed a shop, a confectioners,
a smithy, a carpenter, a timber merchant, a post office and five
working farms, one of which was Hill Top, owned by Mrs William
Heelis, better known by the rest of the world as Beatrix Potter.
In her memoirs, Willow Taylor recalls her childhood in Sawrey
when Beatrix Potter was alive, and tells of the changes that have
taken place since. Her account is illustrated with photographs.
ISBN I 869980 17 4
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
The Beatrix
Potter Societys
International Study Conferences have been held every other
year since 1984 and the Society publishes the major talks
from each
Conference. Much original work has been presented by
experts in
various fields, who come from a number of different countries,
as do the Conference participants. The subject matter
of the first
two Conferences was fairly general and so neither Volume
I nor II were given titles. Later Conferences followed
a definite
theme,
and this is reflected in the titles given to subsequent
volumes. Each publication has a coloured cover and illustrations
in the
text.
Beatrix Potter Studies
I (1984 Conference, Ambleside) 1985, reprinted 1992
Beatrix Potter and the National Trust, by Christopher Hanson-Smith
(UK)
Beatrix Potter, the writer, by Brian Alderson (UK)
Beatrix Potter, the artist, by Irene Whalley (UK)
Beatrix Potter collections in the British Isles, by Anne Hobbs
(UK)
Beatrix Potter collections in America, by Jane Morse (USA)
Beatrix Potter and her funguses, by Mary Noble (UK)
An Introduction to the ballet film Tales of Beatrix
Potter,
by Jane Pritchard (UK)
ISBN I 869980 00 X
Beatrix Potter Studies
II (1986 Conference, Ambleside) 1987
Lake District natural history and Beatrix Potter, by John Clegg
(UK)
The Beatrix Potter collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia:
the first forty years,
by Howard J Heaney (USA)
Collecting Beatrix Potter, by Doris Frohnsdorff (USA)
Beatrix Potter piracies and sequels, by Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
Bertram Potter and the Scottish Borders, by Liz Taylor (UK)
The Herdwick Sheep of Cumbria, by Christopher Hanson-Smith (UK)
ISBN I 869980 01 8
Beatrix Potter Studies
III: Beatrix Potter before Peter Rabbit (1988 Conference, Perth)
1989
Childrens books during the childhood of Beatrix Potter,
by Ruari McLean (UK)
Beatrix Potter and the anthropomorphic impulse, by Lionel Lambourne
(UK)
Beatrix Potter before Peter Rabbit: her art work, by Irene Whalley
(UK)
Beatrix Potters writings: some literary and linguistic influences
with a Scottish slant,
by Anne Hobbs (UK)
The Potters on Holiday, by Judy Taylor (UK)
Beatrix Potter and the Perthshire natural history, by Michael
A. Taylor (UK)
Scotland and Perthshire in the 19th century, by Mary Noble (UK)
ISBN I 869980 02 6
Beatrix Potter studies
IV: Beatrix Potter and Mrs. Heelis (1990 Conference, Lancaster)
1991
Beatrix Potter and her Lake District, by Christopher Hanson-Smith
(UK)
Beatrix Potter through her letters, by Judy Taylor (UK)
American Discoveries, by Jane Morse (USA)
Hawkshead and the Heelis Family, by John Heelis (UK)
Mrs. Heelis settles in, by Elisabeth Battrick (UK)
Beatrix Potter and the Monk Coniston Estate, by Susan Denyer (UK)
The making of the TV film Beatrix Potter: the early
life,
by Mike Healey (UK)
ISBN I 869980 05 0
Beatrix
Potter Studies V: Beatrix Potters Little Books
(!992 Conference, Ambleside) 1993
The case of Peter Rabbit (and others), some reflections
on the
impossibility of childrens fiction,
by Brian
Alderson (UK)
Beatrix Potter in Japan, by Ruriko Otsuki (Japan)
The little books: protocols of reading, by Margaret Meek
(UK)
American reactions to Beatrix Potter and her little books, by
Betsy Wilkens (USA)
Beatrix Potter in France, by Janie Coitit-Godfrey (France)
A personal response to the book pictures of Beatrix Potter, by
Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
ISBN I 869980 06 9
Beatrix
Potter Studies VI: Beatrix Potters Attitudes
and Enthusiasms
(1994 Conference, Ambleside) 1995
Beatrix Potter as observer and recorder of the social scene,
by Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
Beatrix Potter: one of natures conservatives, by
Robert Leeson (UK)
Beatrix Potter and the London art scene in the 1880s and 1890s,
by Michael Wilson (UK)
Heck, mell and bink: cross passages between Lakeland farmhouses
and the
American colonies,
by Victoria Slowe (UK)
The humour of Beatrix Potter, by Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
ISBN I 869980 10 7
Index to Volumes I-VI.
Compiled by E. Jacobsen and V. Simmons 1998
Beatrix Potter Studies
VII:
Beatrix Potter and the Lake District (1996 Conference, Ambleside)
1997
On Location with Beatrix Potter, by John Nettleton (UK)
Lakeland folklore and tradition, by William Rollinson (UK)
Canon Rawnsley and the National Trust, by Elizabeth Battrick
(UK)
Beatrix Potter and the decorative arts, by Susan Denyer (UK)
Beatrix Potters American neighbour, Rebecca Owen,
by Jane Morse (USA)
The Fairy Caravan explained, by Karen Lightner
(USA)
Americans look at Beatrix Potter, by Elaine R. Jacobsen (USA)
ISBN I 869980 12 3
Beatrix Potter Studies
VIII:
Beatrix Potter as Writer and Illustrator. (1998 Conference,
Ambleside) 1999
Beatrix Potters fiction: real stories for children,
by Nicholas Tucker (UK)
Animal stories since Beatrix Potter and her influence on the genre,
by Peter Hollindale (UK)
How Beatrix Potters childhood reading influenced
her writing style, by Dale Schafer (USA)
Natural companions: text and illustration in the work of Beatrix
Potter,
by Catherine J. Golden (USA)
Beatrix Potter and the illustration of childrens
books, by Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
Beatrix Potter as letter writer, by Judy Taylor (UK)
ISBN I 869980 15 8
Beatrix Potter Studies
IX:
Working on the Beatrix Potter Jigsaw (2000 Conference, Ambleside)
2001
Checking the Record: the Beatrix Potter Society in Retrospect,
by Irene Whalley (UK)
Keeping the Pieces Together: the Beatrix Potter Jigsaw
in the United Kingdom, by Judy Taylor (UK)
Context and Content: Working on Beatrix Potter's Art, by Anne
Stevenson Hobbs (UK)
Pieces of the Jigsaw - Beatrix Potter's Art in the United States:
Exhibitions, Collections and Popular Media,
by Betsy Bray (USA)
Beatrix Potter and Natural History, by Peter Hollindale
(UK)
Mischievous Mushrooms: Beatrix Potter's Affair with Fungi
- Facts and Misunderstandings, by Roy Watling (UK)
Pleasant Visits: Beatrix Potter and Americans, by Jane
Crowell Morse (USA)
It All Started at Wray, by Christopher Hanson-Smith (UK)
Restoring the Countryside Legacy, by Paul Farrington (UK)
Beatrix Potter Studies
X: Where Next, Peter Rabbit? (2002 Conference, Ambleside) 2003
A Vogue for Small Books: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and its Contemporary
Competitors,
by Laura Stevenson (USA)
The Typographic Adventures of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Douglas
Martin (UK)
The Frederick Warne Archive and Beatrix Potter, by Elizabeth Booth
(UK)
The Challenge of Reading Beatrix Potter, by Lynne McGeachie (UK)
and Dale Schafer (USA)
Developing Childrens Responses to the Little Books using
Worksheets,
by Bridget Welsh Donaldson (UK)
Beatrix Potter Overseas:
Peter Rabbit in Russia, by Nina Demourova,
A case of distortions (Japan), by Shin-ichi Yoshida
and The Perils
Peter Rabbit has faced in Lithuania, by Kestutis Urba
Beatrix Potters Sideshows, by Nicholas Durbridge
(UK)
Gardening with Beatrix Potter, by Peter Parker (UK)
ISBN 1 869980 20 4
Beatrix
Potter Studies XI: Beatrix Potter’s
Family and Friends (2004 Conference, Birnam) 2005
The Potters’ Perthshire Holiday Homes and Surroundings,
by David C Duncan (UK)
The Significance of Dalguise for Beatrix Potter, by David C Duncan
(UK)
A Genial Man: Edmund Potter and his Calico Printing Work, by
Rowena Godfrey (UK)
The Potters in London, by Joyce Irene Whalley (UK)
Canon Rawnsley – Europe’s ‘most active volcano’!,
by John Nettleton (UK)
Beatrix Potter and the Moores, by Selwyn Goodacre (UK)
Beatrix Potter’s American Friends, by Lolly Robinson (USA)
Beatrix Potter’s Dogs, by Betsy Bray (USA)
ISBN 1 869980 22 0
Beatrix Potter Studies XII: Beatrix Potter, Sources of her Inspiration (2006 Conference, Ambleside) 2007
Beatrix Potter’s Prose Style, by Peter Hollindale (UK)
Art into Books, by Anne Hobbs (UK)
Sources on the Nursery Bookshelf, by Brian Alderson (UK)
‘Every Stone, Every Tree’: ‘Thorough’; Nature in Beatrix Potter’s Little Books, by Katherine Chandler (USA)
The Lake District Landscape – Inspirational or Just Important?, by John Cawood (UK)
‘An Affectionate Companion and a Quiet Friend’: Beatrix Potter’s Pets as Sources of her Inspiration, by Judy Taylor (UK)
ISBN 978 1 869980 24 5
Beatrix Potter US Studies I, Beatrix Potter in America (2005 Conference, Amherst, MA) 2006.
Bertha Mahony Miller: Friend and Bookwoman, by Lolly Robinson (USA)
The Beatrix Potter Collection in The Free Library of Philadelphia, by Karen Lightner (USA)
Peter Rabbit finds Mercury in Retrograde: The Story of the Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen, by Ivy Trent (USA)
Telling her Life: Biographical Perspectives on Beatrix Potter, by Judy Taylor (UK), Susan Wittig Albert (USA) and Linda Lear (USA). Led by Jane Crowell Morse (USA)
Peter Rabbit Piracies in America, by Carol Halebian (USA)
In the Garden with Peter Rabbit and Frineds, by Jan Powers (USA)
Reading Beatrix Potter in the United States, by Dale Schafer (USA)
Introducing Beatrix Potter in the /United States, by Barbara Diment (USA)
82 pages ISBN 1 869980 23 9
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Binders
Cordex self-binding cases in blue designed to hold 24 issues
of the Newsletter. Titled in silver and blocked with the
Societys
Mouse Reading logo.
Back
Numbers of the Societys
Newsletter
Cumulative Indexes to the Newsletters, covering numbers 1-50 and
51-60, compiled by Elaine Jacobsen are also available, free to
Members of the Society.
ISBN 0260 3780
25th anniversary bookmark
In 2005 the Society produced
a delightful woven silk Bookmark especially to commemorate
the 25th anniversary of its founding in 1980. The Bookmark
shows ‘Miss Moppet’s Mouse’ an unused watercolour
for The Story of Miss Moppet and now owned by one of our Members.
Price
UK £6
Overseas £7 (including airmail postage)
AVAILABLE
TO MEMBERS ONLY
Near Sawrey:
An Illustrated Map with Descriptive Text
Research and text by Marian Werner. Illustrations by Richard Pearson.
1999
Issued to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Societys
foundation in 1980, this map, illustrated in colour, shows
the buildings and other places mentioned or depicted by Beatrix
Potter.
It is accompanied by ten pages of explanatory notes. Limited
Edition.
ISBN I 869980 16 6
The Society Badge
Enamelled in pink and cream with gold lettering, oval in shape and depicting
our logo of the Mouse Reading,
surrounded by the name of the Society.
NON-SOCIETY
PUBLICATIONS
For the benefit of Members
we stock a small range of books which are not published by the
Society but which may be difficult to obtain through book shops.
Beatrix Potter, artist,
storyteller and scientist, by John Clegg FLS FMA
Torquay Natural History Society, 1989
ISBN I 869986 55 5
The Tale
of London Past: Beatrix Potters archaeological
paintings from the Armitt Collection.
Text by Eileen Jay & Jenny Hall. Ambleside & London, The
Armitt Trust & Frederick Warne, 1990
ISBN 07232 5304 8
A Fascinating
Acquaintance: Charles McIntosh and Beatrix Potter, their
common bond in the natural history of the Dunkeld area.
By Michael Taylor and Robin Roger. Perth, Perth Museum & Art Gallery, 1989
Updated and re-printed with the support of the Beatrix Potter Society, 1995
Revised, redesigned & republished with the support of the Beatrix Potter
Society, 2003
Beatrix Potters
Derwentwater currently not available
By W. Bartlett and J. I. Whalley. With Original illustrations
by Beatrix Potter. Featuring self guided walks following in the
tracks of Benjamin Bunny, Squirrel Nutkin, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.
London, Frederick Warne, 1988; reprinted Hawes, Leading Edge,
1995
ISBN 0 948135 57 3