Purple Journal_164
Item
- Title
- Purple Journal_164
- Alternative Title
- Purple Journal
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The page is a two-page spread in a journal. The left page contains text in a serif font, organized into paragraphs, and includes a black rectangular header with the name "BEATRIX POTTER." The right page features a black-and-white portrait of Beatrix Potter, holding a plant. The page edges are lined with a light yellow grid pattern.
- Identifier
- 016_061717-122517_purple_journal
- Dates Completed
- June 17, 2017 - Dec. 25, 2017
- Keywords
- Purple; Prince; June 7; Blank journal; Barnes and Noble; 2016–2017; Trump election; 29 Pieces; Funding crisis; Board realities; Come to Jesus moment; Remote work; Gut punches; Dana moves; Emotional loss; Political uncertainty; Life necessities; Calling the angels; Unshakeable faith; State of Contentment; Sacred feminine; Tramadol; Pleasing Daddy; Embodying HER; Yayoi Kusama; Frida Kahlo; Missing Barbara Boster; Mantrams for Trump; Anger chart; Charlottesville; Compassionate Path; Critical Path; Chronic hip pain; Angst and joy; Friendship and forgiveness; NYC trip; Times Square BID; Women artists; Left vs. right hand writing; No backyard studio
- Transcription
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter 28 July 1866 - 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children't books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted.
Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolors of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children't book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time.
Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 24 children's tales. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District, which at that time was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to design spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne, until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue.
And this too could be Alice - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
- Is Part Of
- Purple Journal
- Relation
- Image Gallery