The Fairy Caravan: A Travelling Circus of the North Country Beasts
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A guinea-pig joins a travelling circus of north-country beasts and tours the fells with a pony, a dog and a company that pitches where no human can see it. Beatrix Potter wrote it at sixty-three in her own Lakeland idiom, and would not have it published in England in her lifetime, thinking it too personal. It is her longest book and the only one written for herself. Eighteen plates of painting, from Constable to Millais, trace the same travelling life in open air the book gives its beasts, with coaches, lanes and moonlit roads.
A guinea-pig joins a travelling circus of north-country beasts and tours the fells with a pony, a dog and a company that pitches where no human can see it. Beatrix Potter wrote it at sixty-three in her own Lakeland idiom, and would not have it published in England in her lifetime, thinking it too...
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Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) drew and wrote the small books first as picture letters to a sick child, and published Peter Rabbit herself when publishers would not. She was also a serious mycologist whose paper the Linnean Society would not let her read in person, and she spent her last thirty years farming in the Lake District and buying land for the National Trust.
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) drew and wrote the small books first as picture letters to a sick child, and published Peter Rabbit herself when publishers would not. She was also a serious mycologist whose paper the Linnean Society would not let her read in person, and she spent her last thirty years...
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