A Beatrix Potter Christmas Miss Potter’s First Hill Top Winter (AW71)

Towards the end of her life Beatrix Potter recalled: “My brother and I were born in London because my father was a lawyer. But our descent, our interests and our joy was in the North Country.”
At home in her “unloved birthplace” in Kensington, she dreamed of life in the countryside, and more specifically the Lake District. But it was not until she was in her late thirties and following the great success of her illustrated tales for children, that her new found financial independence gave her the opportunity, in 1905, to purchase Hill Top Farm.
Winter was a favourite time of year for Miss Potter who loved to walk and sketch the snow-clad Lakeland mountains and valleys.