The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter Originals)

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Potter later borrowed Freda Moore's gift copy, revised the work, and privately printed the tale in December 1902. [8] [9] She marketed the book among family and friends and sent a copy to her publisher who made numerous cuts in both text and illustrations for the trade edition, chiefly among the tale's many nursery rhymes. [3] Publication history [ edit ]

Es muy lindo, y claramente recuerda la historia que me era más conocida del zapatero con los duendes. Según la wikipedia, Beatrix Potter basó esta historia es una de su tiempo que le habia pasado a un sastre sorprendido gratamente por sus ayudantes excepto por un ojal que queda sin hacer porque les faltaba trencilla "¡No more twist!", pero que él decia fue asistido por las "hadas". The stitches of those buttonholes were so small—SO small—they looked as if they had been made by little mice!But the tailor came out of his shop and shuffled home through the snow; he lived quite near by in College Court, next the doorway to College Green. And although it was not a big house, the tailor was so poor he only rented the kitchen. This enchanting 1903 children's story is free online here at Project Gutenberg, along with the illustrations. Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The landscape that Peter Rabbit first introduced to us in 1902 is still today one of Beatrix Potter's most popular and well-loved worlds. What started as an endearing story about a bunny rabbit would soon become the first ember for the illustrious series that is 'The World of Beatrix Potter', and a story which has endured retelling after retelling at bedtimes all over the world. In 1988, Rabbit Ears Productions produced a storyteller version with narration by Meryl Streep, drawings by David Jorgensen and music by The Chieftains. Then the tailor started; for suddenly, interrupting him, from the dresser at the other side of the kitchen came a number of little noises—

One of the best loved children's authors of all time, Beatrix Potter will be celebrated in a brand-new trail in the centre of Gloucester, fromFriday 20 October 2023. The trail is organised by the Cathedral Quarter High Street Heritage Action Zone Partnership, in the Each plaque features mice based on the original illustrations drawn by Potter for The Tailor of Gloucester , re-drawn by award-winning local artist Ella Daniel Lowe.In 1890, she began illustrating greeting cards, using her pet rabbits as models more often than not. In 1893, still unmarried despite her parent's wishes, she began writing and illustrating her own children's books. It took until 1902 before the first - Peter Rabbit - was published, though. Eventually her writings earned her enough money to buy a farm in the Lake District, where she continued to draw and write until her eyesight failed her. The tailor, after discovering the finished garment, started to advertise his clothes as 'completed at night by the fairies'. On writing the story, Potter changed the fairies to mice and the tale of the tailor of Gloucester was born.

But although he sewed fine silk for his neighbors, he himself was very, very poor. He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table—“Too narrow breadths for nought—except waistcoats for mice,” said the tailor. The boards were swept and clean; the little ends of thread and the little silk snippets were all tidied away, and gone from off the floor. And then from all over the dresser came a chorus of little tappings, all sounding together, and answering one another, like watch-beetles in an old worm-eaten window-shutter— Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.

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Potter described 'The Tailor of Gloucester' as her own favorite among her books. It was based on the true story of a tailor who left the unsewn pieces of a coat in his shop and found that the garment had been mysteriously finished for him in the night. It turned out that the real tailor's assistants were his apprentices, but in Beatrix Potter's version of the story the secret helpers are skillful little brown mice. Now what can that be?” said the Tailor of Gloucester, jumping up from his chair. The tailor crossed the kitchen, and stood quite still beside the dresser, listening, and peering through his spectacles. Out stepped a little live lady mouse, and made a courtesy to the tailor! Then she hopped away down off the dresser, and under the wainscot.

The waistcoat is cut out from peach-coloured satin—tambour stitch and rose-buds in beautiful floss silk! Was I wise to entrust my last fourpence to Simpkin? One-and-twenty buttonholes of cherry-coloured twist!" This experience sparked Potter’s lifelong interest in the natural world and formed the basis for her love of animals and the countryside that shone through her novels. One bitter cold day near Christmastime the tailor began to make a coat (a coat of cherry-colored corded silk embroidered with pansies and roses) and a cream-colored satin waistcoat for the Mayor of Gloucester.The tailor came out of his shop at dark. No one lived there at nights but little brown mice, and THEY ran in and out without any keys! Marking 120 years since the publication of The Tailor of Gloucester, famously based on a real-life tailor who was located in Westgate Street in the late Victorian period, the trail will lead families through the cobbled streets of the Cathedral Quarter, hunting for ten hidden, specially commissioned brass plaques.