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<\/a>\nRead\u00aders famil\u00adiar with \u201cThe Tale of Peter Rab\u00adbit\u201d and relat\u00aded sto\u00adries will undoubt\u00aded\u00adly be cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded by the beau\u00adti\u00adful illus\u00adtra\u00adtions cre\u00adat\u00aded by Miss Pot\u00adter over a cen\u00adtu\u00adry ago. Today\u2019s crit\u00adics, hail\u00ading it as \u201cthe pio\u00adneer\u00ading work of the mod\u00adern pic\u00adture book,\u201d tend to focus on Miss Pot\u00adter\u2019s artis\u00adtic achieve\u00adments. As ear\u00adly as 1904, British review\u00aders praised the \u201clove\u00adli\u00adness and wit\u201d of her illus\u00adtra\u00adtions and unhesi\u00adtat\u00ading\u00adly declared her to have a \u201cper\u00adfect brush.\u201d Inter\u00adest\u00ading\u00adly, if left to her own devices, Miss Pot\u00adter would prob\u00ada\u00adbly pre\u00adfer to be con\u00adsid\u00adered pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly as a writer.
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The Tai\u00adlor of Glouces\u00adter, includ\u00aded in the sec\u00adond vol\u00adume of the Chi\u00adnese edi\u00adtion of \u201cThe World of Peter Rab\u00adbit,\u201d is a long sto\u00adry with far more text than pic\u00adtures. It is also Miss Porter\u2019s most cher\u00adished of her own lit\u00adtle books. Of course, she also loves the \u201cmas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d \u201cThe Tale of Peter Rab\u00adbit,\u201d but she has a deep\u00ader affec\u00adtion for this metic\u00adu\u00adlous\u00adly craft\u00aded tai\u00adlor\u00ading book. The Tai\u00adlor of Glouces\u00adter is based on a true sto\u00adry she heard from a dis\u00adtant cousin. In 1894, when she was 28, she was allowed to stay at her cous\u00adin\u2019s house near Glouces\u00adter\u00adshire for a few days. This trip had a pro\u00adfound impact on her. Dur\u00ading her sub\u00adse\u00adquent vis\u00adits there, she heard a sto\u00adry: a tai\u00adlor named Pritchard in Glouces\u00adter was rush\u00ading to make a vest for the may\u00ador. When he left on Sat\u00adur\u00adday, he had half the work left. How\u00adev\u00ader, when he returned on Mon\u00adday, he found that the vest was almost fin\u00adished except for one but\u00adton\u00adhole. A small note was pinned on it with a nee\u00addle, say\u00ading \u201cNo thread\u201d. The tai\u00adlor was puz\u00adzled and sur\u00adprised. He hung a small sign in the win\u00addow of his tai\u00adlor shop: \u201cOur vests are made by night fairies!\u201d \u2014 If it were some\u00adone else, they might think this was just a gim\u00admick to attract busi\u00adness, but it fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded Miss Pot\u00adter because she was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly obsessed with this kind of fairy fairy tale in life. Pritchard\u2019s tai\u00adlor shop, now a memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal From the first day she heard about the sto\u00adry, she dili\u00adgent\u00adly worked to com\u00adplete the unknown aspects of her imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion. She put in a lot of metic\u00adu\u00adlous work, as recount\u00aded by many peo\u00adple: she vis\u00adit\u00aded Glouces\u00adter City specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly to sketch the exte\u00adri\u00ador of the leg\u00adendary tai\u00adlor\u2019s shop, the sur\u00adround\u00ading hous\u00ades, and the streets. She paint\u00aded the sto\u00adry\u2019s Col\u00adlege Road scene under strong sum\u00admer sun\u00adlight, sim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading an imag\u00adined win\u00adter snows\u00adcape. She lat\u00ader vis\u00adit\u00aded tai\u00adlors in Chelsea and even found a tai\u00adlor\u2019s shop on Lon\u00addon\u2019s Old Street, rip\u00adping off a but\u00adton and mend\u00ading it there just to observe close\u00adly. She even spent hours at a Lon\u00addon cos\u00adtume muse\u00adum, observ\u00ading and sketch\u00ading the mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent 18th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry gar\u00adments. Clear\u00adly, she had already had a clear vision of her imag\u00adined tai\u00adlor\u2019s sto\u00adry, but it was\u00adn\u2019t until Decem\u00adber 1901 that she com\u00adplet\u00aded the ini\u00adtial ver\u00adsion. The sto\u00adry takes place in the 18th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, and the tai\u00adlor\u2019s work is assist\u00aded by a group of adorable mice! The ini\u00adtial ver\u00adsion of the sto\u00adry was quite long, con\u00adsist\u00ading of only 12 water\u00adcol\u00adors, inter\u00adspersed with numer\u00adous nurs\u00adery rhymes, includ\u00ading authen\u00adtic Scot\u00adtish ones, and she even added anno\u00adta\u00adtions in the Scot\u00adtish lan\u00adguage. Although the pri\u00adma\u00adry source of the revi\u00adsions was Miss Porter\u2019s future fianc\u00e9, Mr. Nor\u00adman Vaugh\u00adan, she main\u00adtained a rather com\u00adplex atti\u00adtude toward the book. On the one hand, she was deeply cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded by the sto\u00adry, large\u00adly due to its inclu\u00adsion of many per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly cher\u00adished ele\u00adments, such as a dozen nurs\u00adery rhymes she par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly favored. On the oth\u00ader hand, she felt the pub\u00adlish\u00ader\u2019s sug\u00adges\u00adtions were rea\u00adson\u00adable, and that she felt she had to make some painful sac\u00adri\u00adfices for the sake of a more acces\u00adsi\u00adble pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, she believed the sto\u00adry was\u00adn\u2019t for chil\u00addren, and should be read by ages around 12. To put it blunt\u00adly, it was orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly a sto\u00adry she had cre\u00adat\u00aded for her own amuse\u00adment! Yet, she com\u00adpro\u00admised, and after exten\u00adsive dele\u00adtions, par\u00adtial rewrit\u00ading, redraw\u00ading, and addi\u00adtion\u00adal illus\u00adtra\u00adtions, she final\u00adly arrived at the ver\u00adsion we see today. Cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addence reveals that the revi\u00adsion process took six months, with the man\u00adu\u00adscript final\u00adly being com\u00adplet\u00aded in late June of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading year. The final pub\u00adlished ver\u00adsion almost cut all the nurs\u00adery rhymes. But Miss Porter could\u00adn\u2019t bear to let go, so she came up with a clever idea. She re-planned the struc\u00adture, mak\u00ading the high\u00adlight of Simp\u00adkin\u2019s Christ\u00admas Eve wan\u00adder\u00ading and dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading the mice\u2019s secret very com\u00adpact, and retained six nurs\u00adery rhymes that were embed\u00added in the sto\u00adry and played a role in dri\u00adving the plot, mak\u00ading them an insep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adble part. For exam\u00adple, the lit\u00adtle mice who helped make the vest first sang a cheer\u00adful nurs\u00adery rhyme that teased the tai\u00adlor, attract\u00ading Simp\u00adkin to the win\u00addow of the tai\u00adlor\u2019s shop. The hun\u00adgry kit\u00adten could\u00adn\u2019t get in with\u00adout a key, so he could only stand anx\u00adious\u00adly out\u00adside the door. At this time, the mice laughed and sang: The top pic\u00adture is an illus\u00adtra\u00adtion by Miss Porter; the bot\u00adtom pic\u00adture is an illus\u00adtra\u00adtion from a col\u00adlec\u00adtion of nurs\u00adery rhymes pub\u00adlished in 1868<\/p>\n \nIt is adapt\u00aded from anoth\u00ader song called \u201csome lit\u00adtle mice sat in a barn to In 1916, when the com\u00admem\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive edi\u00adtion of the Dress\u00admak\u00ader\u2019s Book was about to be pub\u00adlished, Miss Porter con\u00adfessed that it was her favorite of all the lit\u00adtle books. How\u00adev\u00ader, to be hon\u00adest, she pre\u00adferred the ver\u00adsion she print\u00aded at her own expense, per\u00adhaps because there was more mag\u00adic cre\u00adat\u00aded by pure words in that ver\u00adsion. This line from Shake\u00adspeare\u2019s his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal play \u201cRichard III\u201d appears here. Why? Because it\u2019s spo\u00adken by the Duke of Glouces\u00adter, who lat\u00ader became Richard III. The Duke of Glouces\u00adter, immor\u00adtal\u00adized in Shake\u00adspeare\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00adary cre\u00adation, and the Glouces\u00adter tai\u00adlor, by chance, found him\u00adself in Miss Porter\u2019s writ\u00adings. Anoth\u00ader won\u00adder\u00adful coin\u00adci\u00addence! Years lat\u00ader, two assis\u00adtants to the real-life tai\u00adlor, Mr. Pritchard, revealed that the mag\u00adi\u00adcal vest was actu\u00adal\u00adly a job they had secret\u00adly com\u00adplet\u00aded at the tai\u00adlor\u2019s shop on week\u00adends, and that their sub\u00adse\u00adquent silence was a joke on their employ\u00ader. How\u00adev\u00ader, by then, peo\u00adple had large\u00adly ignored this rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion. When Mr. Pritchard died, his tomb\u00adstone became a beloved land\u00admark in Glouces\u00adter, inscribed with \u201cThe Tai\u00adlor of Glouces\u00adter.\u201d Miss Porter\u2019s involve\u00adment with Shake\u00adspeare was no acci\u00addent. Her obses\u00adsion with Shake\u00adspeare was long-stand\u00ading, as evi\u00addenced by her secret diary entries, which reveal she often spent days and nights seclud\u00aded in her cab\u00adin mem\u00ado\u00adriz\u00ading his plays. On Octo\u00adber 10, 1894, she sum\u00adma\u00adrized: \u201cI now know Richard III, four-fifths of Hen\u00adry VI, three pages short of Richard II, King John in four acts, more than half of A Mid\u00adsum\u00admer Night\u2019s Dream and The Tem\u00adpest, and half of The Mer\u00adchant of Venice and Hen\u00adry VIII. Thus, in about a year, I have learned six plays.\u201d This list reads like a wealthy man\u2019s cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion. So, what was the approx\u00adi\u00admate lev\u00adel of mas\u00adtery she was refer\u00adring to? A table in her diary entry for Novem\u00adber 6, 1895, explains that she had achieved her self-assessed best lev\u00adel of mas\u00adtery in Richard III and Hen\u00adry VI, mean\u00ading \u201cnot more than six lines omit\u00adted and not more than twelve errors in impor\u00adtant words\u201d! We have every rea\u00adson to believe, there\u00adfore, that when Miss Porter wrote that quo\u00adta\u00adtion on the title page of The Tai\u00adlor of Glouces\u00adter, it was done so spon\u00adta\u00adneous\u00adly. In a let\u00adter writ\u00adten by Miss Porter to Mr. Nor\u00adman on June 8, 1905, they dis\u00adcussed the revi\u00adsion of \u201cThe Sto\u00adry of Mrs. Tithorne Winthorn\u201d. They exchanged let\u00adters with sim\u00adi\u00adlar con\u00adtents quite fre\u00adquent\u00adly, and it seemed that they had com\u00adplete\u00adly replaced love let\u00adters with such let\u00adters. This let\u00adter main\u00adly dis\u00adcussed whether the word \u201cno\u201d should be used or not. That was the place where Lucy heard Mrs. Winthorn singing through the door. Miss Porter wrote in the let\u00adter: \u201cI think the gram\u00admar of this bal\u00adlad is not right; the prob\u00adlem lies in the word \u2018no\u2019. If it is changed to That should be right. She (Mrs. Winthorn) should be in a state of exor\u00adcism to remove stains and rust, just like Lady Mac\u00adbeth! This is an imper\u00ada\u00adtive, so it is unrea\u00adson\u00adable to use \u2018no\u2019 with the voca\u00adtive. Here it says \u2018no Miss Porter con\u00adtin\u00adued to write until the end of her life. In 1942, a year before her death, she pub\u00adlished sev\u00ader\u00adal short arti\u00adcles in the famous Amer\u00adi\u00adcan lit\u00ader\u00adary review mag\u00ada\u00adzine \u201cHorn Books\u201d, one of which was \u201cThe Lone\u00adly Moun\u00adtains\u201d. One day, she sud\u00adden\u00adly remem\u00adbered an old woman named Katie Mac\u00adDon\u00adald, a wash\u00ader\u00adwoman she had known as a child in Scot\u00adland and the pro\u00adto\u00adtype for Mrs. Tithorne Winthorn (whose ani\u00admal form was inspired by her hedge\u00adhog of the same name). Miss Porter, lying sick, smiled. She casu\u00adal\u00adly grabbed a rolled-up news\u00adpa\u00adper wrap\u00adper and wrote a leisure\u00adly mes\u00adsage on the back, recall\u00ading the short, robust, cheer\u00adful old woman who seemed to radi\u00adate mag\u00adi\u00adcal pow\u00aders while wash\u00ading clothes. But when she saw the two young girls help\u00ading to step on the clothes, she could\u00adn\u2019t help but recall her own girl\u00adhood: \u201cWhat a won\u00adder\u00adful time it was, but it\u2019s too bad it\u2019s gone.\u201d <\/p>\n Relat\u00aded blog posts: \u2014\u2014 \u201c\u6bd4\u5f97\u5154\u7684\u4e16\u754c\u201d\u4e2d\u6587\u7248\u7b2c\u4e8c\u8f91\u8bd1\u540e\u611f \u3000\u3000\u719f\u6089\u300a\u6bd4\u5f97\u5154\u7684\u6545\u4e8b\u300b\u548c\u76f8\u5173\u6545\u4e8b\u7684\u8bfb\u8005\uff0c\u4e00\u5b9a\u4f1a\u4e3a\u6ce2\u7279\u5c0f\u59d0100\u591a\u5e74 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5,388,25,323,26,9],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-timemachine","tag-5","tag-388","tag-25","tag-323","tag-26","tag-9"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5881300cg7c674df831de.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAlthough more than 100 years have passed, thanks to the unremit\u00adting efforts of biog\u00adra\u00adphers and researchers, and thanks to the pre\u00adserved col\u00adlec\u00adtions of let\u00adters, espe\u00adcial\u00adly Miss Porter\u2019s ear\u00adly secret diary of more than 200,000 words that was deci\u00adphered by lat\u00ader gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions, we can basi\u00adcal\u00adly out\u00adline the ins and outs of her ear\u00adly works.<\/p>\n
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\nSnow scene in the sto\u00adry
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\n![\"\u6ce2\u7279\u5c0f\u59d0\uff1a\u4e00\u4f4d\u4e86\u4e0d\u8d77\u7684\u4f5c\u5bb6\"](\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5881300cgdc09683b19f5.jpg\" "\\"Miss")
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\nIt would be hard for peo\u00adple today to under\u00adstand that the sto\u00adry Miss Porter had painstak\u00ading\u00adly con\u00adceived and craft\u00aded over sev\u00ader\u00adal years was actu\u00adal\u00adly just a Christ\u00admas present for a ten-year-old girl! Frie\u00adda was no one else; her broth\u00ader was Noel, the recip\u00adi\u00adent of the let\u00adter sto\u00adry \u201cThe Tale of Peter Rab\u00adbit.\u201d Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly, Miss Porter had sim\u00adply writ\u00adten the sto\u00adry to enter\u00adtain her\u00adself and the chil\u00addren of her friends and fam\u00adi\u00adly. How\u00adev\u00ader, inspired by the suc\u00adcess of Peter Rab\u00adbit, she began to plan for a prop\u00ader tai\u00adlor\u2019s book. Before Christ\u00admas 1902, she print\u00aded anoth\u00ader 500 copies of \u201cThe Tai\u00adlor of Glouces\u00adter\u201d at her own expense. This self-print\u00aded edi\u00adtion proved pop\u00adu\u00adlar, espe\u00adcial\u00adly with old\u00ader women. Vaugh\u00adan Pub\u00adlish\u00ading Com\u00adpa\u00adny, already work\u00ading close\u00adly with Miss Porter on her sec\u00adond book, \u201cThe Tale of Squir\u00adrel and Plum,\u201d also began to seri\u00adous\u00adly con\u00adsid\u00ader the tai\u00adlor\u2019s book. How\u00adev\u00ader, there was a prob\u00adlem: the book would require major revi\u00adsions!
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\nTitle page of a self-print\u00aded edi\u00adtion of a tai\u00adlor\u2019s book
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\n\u201cThree mice sat down to spin togeth\u00ader,
\nA cat came over and stared inside.
\nMy lit\u00adtle baby, why are you so busy?
\nWe make clothes for gen\u00adtle\u00admen.
\nCan you please let me in and help you with the thread?
\nOh, no thanks, Miss Cat,
\nYou\u2019ll bite our heads off!\u201d
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\nThe nurs\u00adery rhyme \u201cspin\u201d was prob\u00ada\u00adbly read by Miss Porter as a child, and it was includ\u00aded in the illus\u00adtrat\u00aded col\u00adlec\u00adtion of nurs\u00adery rhymes pub\u00adlished in 1868. Her adap\u00adta\u00adtion not only improves the rhythm, but also seam\u00adless\u00adly inte\u00adgrates with the tai\u00adlor\u2019s sto\u00adry. Even the most demand\u00ading edi\u00adtor would have to give in! You see, her obses\u00adsion with word games is no less than her paint\u00ading.
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\nCare\u00adful read\u00aders may also notice the fol\u00adlow\u00ading quote on the title page:
\n\u201cI want to spend mon\u00adey to buy a dress\u00ading mir\u00adror,
\nHire him twen\u00adty or thir\u00adty tai\u00adlors\u2026\u201d
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\nMiss Pot\u00adter\u2019s Secret Diary (Ages 15\u201331)
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\n\u2018Smooth and hot \u2013 red rusty spot
\nnev\u00ader here be seen \u2013 oh!\u2019<\/p>\n
\nspot\u2019 is very con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adto\u00adry. \u2026\u201d Miss Porter was like a gram\u00admar\u00adi\u00adan at this moment. She prob\u00ada\u00adbly thought of the chill\u00ading mur\u00admur of Lady Mac\u00adbeth in the sleep\u00adwalk\u00ading scene in Act 5, Scene 1 of Mac\u00adbeth: \u201cOut,
\ndamned spot! Out, I say!
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\nAs we get to know Miss Porter dur\u00ading her peak cre\u00adative career, we dis\u00adcov\u00ader she seemed to be under a cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading spell, con\u00adstant\u00adly con\u00adceiv\u00ading, observ\u00ading, col\u00adlect\u00ading mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, writ\u00ading, and draw\u00ading. Whether writ\u00ading to her\u00adself, com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading with adults and chil\u00addren, or prepar\u00ading for pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion, she approached her work with unwa\u00adver\u00ading care, metic\u00adu\u00adlous\u00adly weigh\u00ading every word. She tire\u00adless\u00adly revised, dis\u00adcussed, and re-revised her work, striv\u00ading for per\u00adfec\u00adtion. Today, when we read her chil\u00addren\u2019s writings\u2014letters, sto\u00adries, and pub\u00adlished works\u2014we are eas\u00adi\u00adly impressed by the play\u00adful blend\u00ading of nature and every\u00adday life, the fairy\u00adtale world of fan\u00adta\u00adsy and the real world. How\u00adev\u00ader, the read\u00ader might over\u00adlook the painstak\u00ading effort that went into these works, spurred by the ease of read\u00ading.<\/p>\n
\nFor a time, Miss Porter was tru\u00adly neglect\u00aded by her coun\u00adtry\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00adary world. She mar\u00adried in mid\u00addle age, becom\u00ading the hap\u00adpi\u00adly mar\u00adried Mrs. Hillis, and, as if under a new spell, yearned to become a true farmer (which she ulti\u00admate\u00adly suc\u00adceed\u00aded in doing). By then, her eye\u00adsight was fail\u00ading, and she could no longer paint those dreamy, love\u00adly pic\u00adtures. British crit\u00adics rarely men\u00adtioned her, and the pub\u00adlic image of Peter Rab\u00adbit\u2019s cre\u00adator seemed long dead. Inter\u00adest\u00ading\u00adly, how\u00adev\u00ader, across the pond, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan lit\u00ader\u00adary cir\u00adcles held her in high esteem. Amer\u00adi\u00adcan read\u00aders, pub\u00adlish\u00aders, and lit\u00ader\u00adary crit\u00adics made pil\u00adgrim\u00adages to vis\u00adit this near\u00adly reclu\u00adsive farmer, and she glad\u00adly con\u00adtributed to their work.
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\nLone\u00adly
\nHills is a beau\u00adti\u00adful prose piece, describ\u00ading the moun\u00adtains and moors of the Lake Dis\u00adtrict she deeply loved. Even dur\u00ading the stale\u00admate of World War II, she still found the plea\u00adsure of view\u00ading the dis\u00adtant Ger\u00adman air raids as a unique spec\u00adta\u00adcle. How\u00adev\u00ader, due to severe short\u00adages of sup\u00adplies and labor, her farm strug\u00adgled to sur\u00advive. Dur\u00ading her final year, she was often bedrid\u00adden due to ill\u00adness.
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\nMiss Pot\u00adter wrote fairy tales for chil\u00addren, but they also con\u00adtained her entire life.
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\nThe Argen\u00adtine Primera Divisi\u00f3n in Bei\u00adjing in Novem\u00adber 2012<\/p>\n
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\nPick\u00ading up pearls from the sea of words: Essays after the trans\u00adla\u00adtion of \u201cThe World of Peter Rab\u00adbit\u201d<\/a>
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\nMas\u00adters of the Art of Sto\u00adry\u00adtelling for Chil\u00addren (I)<\/a>
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\nMas\u00adters of the Art of Sto\u00adry\u00adtelling for Chil\u00addren (Part 3)<\/a>
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