by Linda Lear
Clegg, John, Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Scientist (Torquay: Torquay Natural History Society, 1989).
Crouch, Marcus, Beatrix Potter (London: Bodley Head, 1960).
Denyer, Susan, At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit (New York: Harry Abrams, 2000).
Denyer, Susan, Beatrix Potter and Her Farms (London: National Trust, 1992).
Grinstein, Alexander, The Remarkable Beatrix Potter (Madison: International Universities Press, 1995).
Heelis, John, The Tale of Mrs William Heelis Beatrix Potter (Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 1999).
Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Whalley, Joyce Irene, Beatrix Potter: The V & A Collection (London: Victoria and Albert Museum and Frederick Warne, 1985).
Hurst, John G., Edmund Potter and Dinting Vale (Manchester: Edmund Potter and Company, 1948).
Jay, Eileen, Noble, Mary, and Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter’s Drawings from the Armitt Collection (London: Frederick Warne, 1992).
King, Arthur, and Stuart, A. F., The House of Warne: One Hundred Years of Publishing (London: Frederick Warne, 1965).
Kutzer, M. Daphne, Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code (New York: Routledge, 2003).
Lane, Margaret, Purely for Pleasure (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1967).
Lane, Margaret, The Magic Years of Beatrix Potter (London: Frederick Warne, 1978).
Lane, Margaret, The Tale of Beatrix Potter (London: Frederick Warne, 1946; revised edition 1985).
MacDonald, Ruth K., Beatrix Potter (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986).
Parker, Peter, ‘The Gardens of Beatrix Potter’, Hortus, 30 (Summer 1994), 106–15.
Peck, Robert McCracken, ‘Beatrix Potter, Scientific Illustrator’, Antiques, 149/6 (June 1996), 868–77.
Peck, Robert McCracken, ‘The Tale before Peter Rabbit’, International Wildlife, 20 (Jan.- Feb. 1990), 42–5.
Potter, Edmund, Picture of a Manufacturing District (London: James Ridgeway, 1856).
Quinby, Jane, Beatrix Potter: A Bibliographical Check List (Stroud: Ian Hodgkins & Co., 1999).
Smithson, Alison, ‘Beatrix Potter’s Places’, Architectural Design (Dec. 1967), 89–90.
Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman (London: Frederick Warne, 1986; revised edition, 2002).
Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter and Hawkshead (London: National Trust, 1988).
Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter and Hill Top (London: National Trust, 1989).
Taylor, Judy, That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit (London: Frederick Warne, 2002).
Taylor, Judy, (ed.), ‘So I Shall Tell You a Story…’: Encounters with Beatrix Potter (London: Frederick Warne, 1993).
Taylor, Judy, Whalley, Joyce Irene, Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Battrick, Elizabeth, Beatrix Potter, 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World (London: Frederick Warne and National Trust, 1987).
Taylor, Liz, ‘The Tale of Bertram Potter’, Weekend Scotsman (11 Nov. 1978), 6–7.
Taylor, Willow, Through the Pages of My Life, edited by Judy Taylor (London: Beatrix Potter Society, 2000).
Agriculture
Bingham, Roger, From Fell & Field: A History of the Westmorland County Show, 1799–1999 (Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone Press, 1999).
Denyer, Susan, Herdwick Sheep Farming (London: National Trust, 1993).
Grigg, David B., English Agriculture: An Historical Perspective (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Howkins, Alun, Reshaping Rural England: A Social History, 1850–1925 (London: HarperCollins Academic, 1991).
Humber, R. D., Game Cock & Countryman, with illustrations by John Roberts (London: Cassell, 1966).
Lamb, R. H., Herdwicks Past and Present: A Study of the Breed (Penrith: Herald Print Company, 1936, revised 1997).
O’Hagan, Andrew, The End of British Farming (London: Profile Books, 2001).
Orrell, Bob, ‘A Breed Apart’, Cumbria, 55/6 (Sept. 2005), 30.
Upton, Jane, and Soden, Dennis, An Introduction to Keeping Sheep (Ipswich: Farming Press, 1996).
Whetham, Edith H., Agrarian History of England and Wales, vol. viii: 1914–1939, edited by H. P. R. Finberg and Joan Thirsk (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978).
Children’s Literature, Art and Photography
Alderson, Brian, Sing a Song for Sixpence: The English Picture Book Tradition and Randolph Caldecott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986).
Avery, Gillian, and Briggs, Julia (eds.), Children and Their Books (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
Barnes, Martin, Benjamin Bucknell Turner: Rural England through a Victorian Lens (London: V&A Publications, 2001).
Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit: A Children’s Classic at 100, edited by Margaret Mackey (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002).
Bermingham, Ann, Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
Blount, Margaret, Animal Land: The Creatures of Children’s Fiction (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1975).
Brooke, Henry, Leslie Brooke and Johnny Crow (London: Frederick Warne, 1982).
Brooke, L. Leslie, Johnny Crow’s Garden (London: Frederick Warne, 1903).
Butler, Marilyn, Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
Chignall, Dudley, ‘The Man Who Drew for Beatrix Potter — Ernest Aris’ (unpublished manuscript, 2004).
Crist, Eileen, Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999).
Darcy, Cornelius P., The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976).
Darton, F. J. Harvey, Children’s Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life, third edition, edited by Brian Alderson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Golden, Catherine J., ‘Beatrix Potter: Naturalist Artist’, Women’s Art Journal, 11/1 (1990), 16–20.
Golden, Catherine J., (ed.), Book Illustrated: Text, Image and Culture, 1770–1930 (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000).
Goldthwaite, John, The Natural History of Make-Believe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966).
Harvey, Michael, ‘Rupert Potter: ‘A Victorian Amateur Photographer’ (unpublished manuscript, 1979).
Harvey, Michael, ‘Rupert Potter and Millais’, Creative Camera, 104 (Feb. 1973), 62–3.
Harvey, Michael, ‘Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites and Photography’, Parts 1 & 2, British Journal of Photography, 120 (16 March 1973), 234–8; (23 March 1973), 268–72.
Henley, William, ‘Randolph Caldecott’, Art Journal (July 1881), 212.
Hewison, Robert, Warrell, Ian, and Wildman, Stephen, Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites (London: Tate Gallery, 2000), 11–19.
Hilton, Mary, Styles, Morag, and Watson, Victor (eds.), Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood, 1600–1900 (London: Routledge, 1997).
Lundin, Anne, Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001).
MacLeod, Dianne Sachko, Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Mahony, Bertha E., Lattimer, Louise Payson, and Folmsbee, Beulah (eds.), Illustrators of Children’s Books 1744–1945 (Boston: The Horn Book, 1947).
Muir, Percy, Children’s Books of Yesterday: A Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at 7 Albemarle Street, London, During May 1946 (Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1970).
Muir, Percy, Victorian Illustrated Books (London, 1971).
Paul, Lissa, ‘Beatrix Potter and John Everett Millais: Reproductive Technologies and Coolhunting’, in Margaret Mackey (ed.), Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit: A Children’s Classic at 100 (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002), 53–75.
Sale, Roger, Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).
Scott, Carole, �
��Clothed in Nature or Nature Clothed: Dress as Metaphor in the Illustrations of Beatrix Potter and C. M. Barker’, Children’s Literature, 22 (1994), 70–89.
Sendak, Maurice, Caldecott & Company: Notes on Books and Pictures (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988).
Stemp, Robin, ‘The Seeing Eye’, Artist (March 1990), 38–40.
Tucker, Nicholas, ‘Fairy Tales and the Early Opponents in Deference of Mrs Trimmer’, in Hilton, Styles and Watson (eds.), Opening the Nursery Door, 104–16.
Tucker, Nicholas, (ed.), Suitable for Children? Controversies in Children’s Literature (Berkeley: UCLA Press, 1976).
Contemporaries
Boyd, Nancy, Three Victorian Women Who Changed Their World: Josephine Butler, Octavia Hill, and Florence Nightingale (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).
Brill, Barbara, William Gaskell 1805–1884: A Portrait (Manchester: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1984).
Darley, Gillian, Octavia Hill: A Life (London: Constable, 1990).
Fairley, Rob (ed.), Blackburn’s Birds: The Paintings of Jemima Blackburn (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1993).
Hardy, Gwen, William Rathbone and the Early History of District Nursing (Ormskirk: G.W.&A. Hesketh, 1981).
Ponsonby, Laura, Marianne North at Kew Gardens (Exeter: Webb & Brower, 1954).
Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield, The Life and Experiences of Sir H. E. Roscoe, DCL, LLD, FRS, written by Himself (London: MacMillan and Co., 1906).
Webb, Beatrice, My Apprenticeship (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926).
Weber, Carl J., Hardy and the Lady from Madison Square (Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1952).
Environmental History
Anker, Peder, Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895–1945 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001).
Evans, David, A History of Nature Conservation in Britain (London: Routledge, 1992).
McGaffey, Beth Ann Knight, ‘The Three Founders of the British Conservation Movement, 1865–1895: Robert Preston, Octavia Hill, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley’, Ph.D. diss. (Texas Christian University, 1978).
Mackenzie, John M., The Empire of Nature: Hunting Conservation and British Imperialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988).
Sheail, John, An Environmental History of Twentieth-century Britain (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
Smout, T. C., Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).
The Lake District
Battrick, Elizabeth, ‘The Most Active Volcano in Europe’: Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (Keswick: National Trust, 1995).
Bragg, Melvyn, Land of the Lakes (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983).
Brunskill, R. W., Vernacular Architecture of the Lake Counties (London: Faber, 1987).
Davies, Hunter, A Walk Around the Lakes (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979).
Davies, Hunter, Beatrix Potter’s Lakeland (London: Frederick Warne, 1988).
Denyer, Susan, and Martin, Janet (eds.), A Century in the Lake District (London: National Trust, 1995).
Gambles, Robert, Out of the Forest: The Natural World and the Place-Names of Cumbria (Kendal: Laverock Books, 1989).
Halliday, Geoffrey, A Flora of Cumbria (Lancaster: University of Lancaster, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1997).
Hervy, G. A. K., and Barnes, J. A. G., Natural History of the Lake District (London: Frederick Warne, 1970).
Hunt, Irvine, Lakeland Yesterday, vol. i (Otley: Smith Settle, 2002).
Jay, Eileen, The Armitt Story, Ambleside (Kendal: Loughrigg Press, 1998).
Marshall, J. D., and Walton, John K., The Lake Counties from 1830 to the Mid-Twentieth Century: A Study in Regional Change (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981).
Mitchell, W. R., Beatrix Potter: Her Life in the Lake District (Settle: Castleberg, 1998).
Mitchell, W. R., Changing Lakeland (Kendal: Dalesman Press, 1989).
Mitchell, W. R., How They Lived in the Lake District (Settle: Castleberg, 2002).
Mitchell, W. R., Lakeland Dalesfolk (Kendal: Dalesman Publishing Company, 1983).
Mitchell, W. R., Letters from the Lakes (Settle: Castleberg, 1995).
Murphy, Graham, Founders of the National Trust (London: Christopher Helm, 1987).
Rawnsley, Eleanor F., Canon Rawnsley: An Account of His Life (Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson, 1923).
Rawnsley, Revd Hardwicke Drummond, By Fell and Dale at the English Lakes (Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1911).
Rawnsley, Revd Hardwicke Drummond, ‘Moral Rhymes for the Young’, in T. B. A. Saunders (ed.), Prelates and People of the Lake Counties (Kendal: no publisher, 1948).
Rawnsley, Rosalind, ‘HDR — A Lover of His Fellow Men’, Cumbria, 37 (October 1987), 409–11.
Rollinson, William, History of Cumberland and Westmorland (London: Phillimore & Company, 1978).
Rollinson, William, Life and Tradition in the Lake District, foreword by Melvyn Bragg (Kendal: Dalesman Publishing Co., 1974; revised, 1981).
Simpson, John, ‘The Most Active Volcano in Europe’: A Short Life of Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Vicar of Crosthwaite, Keswick 1883–1917 (Keswick: no publisher, n.d.).
Thompson, Bruce L., ‘Beatrix Potter’s Gift to the Public’, Country Life (3 March 1944), 370–71.
Thompson, Bruce L., The Lake District and the National Trust (Kendal: Titus Wilson & Sons, 1946).
Thompson, Bruce L., (compiler), ‘The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty’ (Kendal: Cumbria Record Office, c. 1949).
Walton, John K., ‘Canon Rawnsley and the English Lake District’, Armitt Library Journal, 1 (1998), 1–17.
Winchester, Angus J. L., The Harvest of the Hills (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2000).
Mycology, Palaeontology and Archaeology
Coates, Henry, A Perthshire Naturalist: Charles McIntosh of Inver (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923).
Findlay, W. P. K., Wayside and Woodland Fungi (London: Frederick Warne, 1967).
Gardiner, Brian, ‘Beatrix Potter’s Fossils and Her Interest in Geology’, The Linnean, 16/1 (Jan. 2000), 31–47.
Gibson, Colin, ‘The Perthshire Naturalist’, Scots Magazine, 97/2 (1972), 117–25.
Gilpatrick, Naomi, ‘The Secret Life of Beatrix Potter’, Natural History Magazine, 81 (Oct. 1972), 38–41, 88–97.
Jay, Eileen, A Tale of London Past: Beatrix Potter’s Archaeological Paintings from the Armitt Collection (London: Frederick Warne for the Armitt Trust, 1990).
Noble, Mary, ‘Beatrix Potter: Mycologist and Biorecorder’, Journal of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, 17/3 (Sept. 1981), 15–18.
Noble, Mary, ‘Beatrix Potter, Naturalist & Mycologist and Charles Mclntosh, the “Perthshire Naturalist” ’, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 44/3 (1987), 607–27.
Noble, Mary, ‘The Old Man of the Woods’, Beatrix Potter Society Newsletter, 31 (December 1988-January 1989), 5–6.
Noble, Mary, and Watling, Roy, ‘Cup-fungus or Basidiomycete, and Potterism’, Bulletin of the British Mycological Society, 20 (1986), 145–7.
Taylor, M. A., and Rodger, R. H. (eds.), A Fascinating Acquaintance: Charles Mcintosh and Beatrix Potter (Perth: Perth Museum & Art Gallery, 2003).
Wakeford, Tom, Liaisons of Life (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001).
Watling, Roy, ‘Beatrix Potter as a Mycologist: The Period before Peter Rabbit and Friends’, lecture (London: The Linnean Society, 24 April 1997).
Watling, Roy, ‘But if… Helen B. Potter’s Year of Anxiety!’, Armitt Library Journal (1997).
Watling, Roy, ‘Helen Beatrix Potter’, The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 16/1 (Jan. 2000), 24–31.
Watling, Roy, ‘The Role of the Amateur in Mycology — What Would We Do without Them?’, Mycroscience, 39 (1998), 513–22.
Religion: Unitarians and Quakers
Ballantyne, J.
C., ‘Origins of Essex Church, Notting Hill Gate, London’, Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society, 7 (1939–42), 130–38.
Bredbury, Jack, The Foundation of the Stalybridge Unitarian Church and Sunday School and the Connection of Their Origins with the Leech Family (Stalybridge: Ken and Sue Howard, 2001).
Davis, V. D., A History of Manchester College (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932).
Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Watt, Ruth, Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760–1860 (New York: Longman, 1998).
R. K. Webb, ‘The Background: English Unitarianism in the Nineteenth Century’, in Leonard Smith (ed.), Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854–2004 (Manchester: Unitarian College, 2004).
R. K. Webb, ‘The Faith of Nineteenth-Century Unitarians: A Curious Incident’, in Richard Helmstadter and Bernard Lightman (eds.), Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990), 126–49.
R. K. Webb, ‘The Limits of Religious Liberty’, in Richard Helmstadter (ed.), Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997), 120–49.
R. K. Webb, ‘The Unitarian Background’, in Barbara Smith (ed.), Truth, Liberty, Religion: Essays Celebrating Two Hundred Years of Manchester College (Oxford: Manchester College, 1986), 3–29.
Wykes, David, ‘Sons and Subscribers: Lay Support and the College’, in Barbara Smith (ed.), Truth, Liberty, Religion: Essays Celebrating Two Hundred Years of Manchester College (Oxford: Manchester College, 1986), 32–77.
Science and Natural History
Allen, David Elliston, The Botanists: A History of the Botanical Society of the British Isles through a Hundred and Fifty Years (Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1986).
Allen, David Elliston, ‘The Early Professional in British Natural History’, in Alwyne Wheeler and James H. Price (eds.), From Linnaeus to Darwin: Commentaries on the History of Biology and Geology (Society for the History of Natural History, 1985), 1–12.