![]() Passing a tailor’s shop in Chelsea one day, she deliberately tore a button off her coat and took it in to be mended so she could observe at first hand the tailor’s posture, tools and workbench. Beatrix went to extraordinary lengths to create an authentic setting. The Tailor of Gloucester is unusual in that the story takes place at a specific period – ‘the time of swords and periwigs’ – between about 17. Many of Beatrix Potter’s stories begin ‘Once upon a time…’. The Tailor of Gloucester was Beatrix's favourite of her little books and the second to be privately printed prior to publication by Frederick Warne & Co. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 19. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. ![]()
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