An environmental historian and biographer, Linda Lear is the author of the prize-winning study, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. A natural history enthusiast and a collector of botanical art, she and her husband tend gardens in Bethesda, MD and Charleston, SC.
"Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised
between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual
and amorous, of liberation." --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker"Potter
was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is
an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a
meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that,
despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly
fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement." --Booklist, *Starred Review*"Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way." --The Horn Book"In
this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to
detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing
and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended." --Library
Journal
Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised
between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual
and amorous, of liberation. "Anthony Lane, The New Yorker" Potter
was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is
an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a
meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that,
despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly
fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement. "Booklist, *Starred Review*" Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way. "The Horn Book" In
this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to
detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing
and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended. "Library
Journal""
Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of the Year Award: "Read Beatrix
Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised between
late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual and
amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New Yorker""Potter was
a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is an
equally close observer of her subject. The result is a meticulously
researched and brilliantly re-created life that, despite its length
and accretion of detail, is endlessly fascinating and often
illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In
this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to
detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing
and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library
Journal"
Praise for "Beatrix Potter," Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of
the Year Award: "Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a
woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises,
intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New
Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around
her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The
result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life
that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly
fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In
this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to
detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing
and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library
Journal"
Praise for "Beatrix Potter", Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of
the Year Award: "Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a
woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises,
intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New
Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around
her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The
result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life
that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly
fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In
this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to
detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing
and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library
Journal"
Praise for "Beatrix Potter," Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of
the Year Award: "Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a
woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises,
intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New
Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around
her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The
result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life
that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly
fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In
this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to
detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing
and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library
Journal"
Praise for Linda Lear's BEATRIX POTTER: "An in-depth biography of
Beatrix Potter is long overdue and here Linda Lear fills that gap
with a thoroughly well-researched and compelling book."--Judy
Taylor, author of "Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and
Countrywoman" Praise for Linda Lear's RACHEL CARSON: WITNESS FOR
NATURE:
.."a probing and scrupulously footnoted accounting of this
extraordinary woman's life....Lear's treatment of Carson's romantic
life is never prurient, and it helps fill out the portrait of a
gifted and courageous woman who helped redefine the way humans look
at their place in nature."--"Time"
"Linda Lear's RACHEL CARSON: WITNESS FOR NATURE is timely indeed.
Happily it is also authoritative. Lear..has the empathy, balance
and literary skill to conjure up Carson the scientist, writer,
lover and family member, shackled for life to need relatives....As
both biography and scientific commentary, RACHEL CARSON: WITNESS
FOR NATURE is a staggering accomplishment. Lear's impressive
research, scrupulous presentation, deep sensitivity, controlled
passion and lyrical prose are reminiscent of Carson's, and paint a
mulit-dimensional portrait of the woman whose Silent Spring
unleashed shrieks of protest that still resound today."--Elizabeth
Abbott
"Hers was an exemplary existence, and now it has been told in
exemplary fashion by Linda Lear....Lear is honest but tactful -
reflecting Carson's own delicacy....the power of Lear's
magnificent, heartfelt biography is enough to send the reader back
to Carson's writing with new attention and respect."--Verlyn
Klinkenborg," Audubon"
"Much deserved, a biography would also be difficult to write.
Happily, RACHEL CARSON: WITNESSFOR NATURE by Linda Lear is
sensitive, scrupulous and a consistently fine read."--"Baltimore
Sun" "In terms of research, Carson has been well-served by her
biographer."-- "Observer Review"
"Linda Lear's prose is tidy, meticulous in its attention to detail
and shows a deep reverence for its subject."--"New Scientist"
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), creator of the immortal Peter Rabbit, is known as an avid writer of comical illustrated letters to friends and as an assertive marketer of her illustrations, and this lively volume also captures her energetic participation in Victorian-era natural history research and conservation. Environmental historian Lear (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature) relates that, as a child in an upper-middle-class family, Potter sketched flowers, dead animals and live lizards, insects and rodents that she brought home. "Rabbits were caught, tamed, sketched, painted" by young Beatrix and her brother, Bertram. In 1893, while traveling with her pet rabbit, Peter Piper, and seeking unusual fungi with self-taught mycologist Charles McIntosh, Potter jotted an illustrated note "about a disobedient young rabbit called `Peter' " to an ailing child friend and sketched Peter's nemesis, a McIntosh-look-alike farmer called Mr. McGregor, creating "two fictional characters that one day would be world-famous." Lear judges Potter "a brilliant amateur" naturalist who expressed strong convictions about land preservation. Potter's witty journals, with their close observations of people, animals, objects and places, serve as the basis for Lear's engrossing account, which will appeal to ecologists, historians, child lit buffs and those who want to know the real Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Benjamin Bunny. A movie, Miss Potter, also releases in January. 16 pages of color illus., 8 pages of b&w illus. not seen by PW. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised
between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual
and amorous, of liberation." --Anthony Lane, The New
Yorker"Potter was a famously close observer of the world around
her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The
result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life
that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly
fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable
achievement." --Booklist, *Starred Review*"Lear is not only an
impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and
definitive biography, a delight in every way." --The Horn
Book"In this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous
attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her
elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal
Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual and amorous, of liberation. "Anthony Lane, The New Yorker" Potter was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable achievement. "Booklist, *Starred Review*" Lear is not only an impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and definitive biography, a delight in every way. "The Horn Book" In this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended. "Library Journal""
Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of the Year Award: "Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal"
Praise for "Beatrix Potter," Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of the Year Award: "Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal"
Praise for "Beatrix Potter", Winner of the 2007 Lakeland Book of the Year Award: "Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal"
"Read Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear and you sense a woman poised between late-Victorian constraint and the promises, intellectual and amorous, of liberation."--Anthony Lane, "The New Yorker""Potter was a famously close observer of the world around her, and Lear is an equally close observer of her subject. The result is a meticulously researched and brilliantly re-created life that, despite its length and accretion of detail, is endlessly fascinating and often illuminating. It is altogether a remarkable achievement."--"Booklist, *Starred Review*""Lear is not only an impeccable historian but a grand storyteller...a magisterial and definitive biography, a delight in every way."--"The Horn Book" "In this remarkable biography...the author's meticulous attention to detail is obvious throughout, not to mention her elegant writing and exceptional scholarship. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal"
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