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    The Tailor of Gloucester
    The Tailor of Gloucester
    The Tailor of Gloucester
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    The Tailor of Gloucester

    By Beatrix Potter

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1903
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    Beatrix Potter

    Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English writer, illustrator, scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals. Written as a gift for the son of her former governess, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published in 1901. Its success enabled her to commit to full-time writing and illustrating. Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 24 children's tales.

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    • 5/5
      This delightful story was the author's own favourite, and is the only one whose central character is a human being rather than an animal. I was prompted to read this following a visit to Gloucester for its annual history festival, which included a short Beatrix Potter walk round the city centre. The story is based on the life of a real Gloucester tailor, John Prichard, but the house now occupied by the Beatrix Potter museum and touted in the book as the tailor's shop in College Court is not the historical Prichard's shop, which was in nearby Westgate and is now the (very unassuming) Sword Inn. Anyway, it is of course a charming story.
    • 5/5
      Sort of a take on The Elves and the Shoemaker, this little drama involves a tailor, a cat and numerous mice. I say drama because it covers the human traits of resentment, vengeance, kindness, charity and repentance, all without one word of preaching.The illustrations are charming, and the cat is perfectly in character. There is a museum in England which has the waistcoat which Potter used as inspiration for her lovely pictures with the "cherry-coloured twist." A sweet little insight into the fashion lives of history.
    • 5/5
      Simply adorable tale by Beatrix Potter. Ageless.
    • 5/5
      I wish they still had these types of industrious mice nowadays. Mice who will hear your frantic plea for help to complete a deadline at work...and then they'll come running to complete your powerpoint presentation or spreadsheet. Maybe because they're from Gloucester?

      Allen Atkinson's lovely illustrations make the Beatrix Potter classic even better. The tailor and his helpful mice made such an impression on me when I was small that I actually visited Gloucester. I never found the little rodents, but I did find one of those wonderful alleys full of shops. Certainly, the little ones were busy at work in one of those stores.

      "And then I bought
      A pipkin and a popkin,
      A slipkin and a slopkin,
      All for one farthing"

      Book Season = Year Round
    • 5/5
      Wonderful little book !
    • 5/5
      To my mind this is the most exquisitely-illustrated of all Potter's books, and just as scrupulously observed as all her work. There are fine pictures of Gloucester in a by-gone age before the planners had got to it, the interior of the tailor's home, the domestic setting of the mice under the wainscot, and ravishing visual and verbal descriptions of the sewing materials and products. It's also a Christmas story with a suitably happy ending in which even the cat's flinty heart is softened. Truly perfect.
    • 3/5
      A cute adaption of the Elves and the Shoemaker. The illustrations were the best part of this book.
    • 4/5
      The tailor is too sick to work, but he has left snippings for clothes for the mice. To thank him, they finish his work. Simpkin, his cat, has hidden the thread he got on an errand, but seeing the mice work so hard, he gives it to his master.

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    The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix Potter

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    Title: The Tailor of Gloucester

    Author: Beatrix Potter

    Release Date: February 2, 2005 [EBook #14868]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER ***

    Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online

    Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)

    THE TAILOR OF

    GLOUCESTER

    BY

    BEATRIX POTTER

    Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, etc

    NEW YORK

    FREDERICK WARNE & CO, INC

    COPYRIGHT, 1903

    BY

    FREDERICK WARNE & Co.

    COPYRIGHT RENEWED, 1931

    [All rights reserved]

    PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY PRINCETON POLYCHROME PRESS

    ISBN O 7232 0594 9 (cloth) ISBN O-7232-6227-6 (paper)

    12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20(C)

    MY DEAR FREDA,

    Because you are fond of fairy-tales, and have been ill, I have made you a story all for yourself—a new one that nobody has read before.

    And the queerest thing about it is—that I heard it in Gloucestershire, and that it is true—at least about the tailor, the waistcoat, and the

    No more twist!

    Christmas, 1901

    THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER

    In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

    He sat in

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