THE TALE OF MRS TIGGY-WINKLE - Tales of Peter Rabbit and Friends book 6: The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Friends book 6

By Written and Illustrated By Beatrix Potter

The Tale Of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is a children's story written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea. The two deliver freshly laundered clothing to the animals and birds in the neighbourhood. Potter thought the book would be best enjoyed by girls, and, like most girls' books of the period, it is set indoors with a focus on housework.

Potter's pet hedgehog, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, and Kitty MacDonald, a Scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. Lucie Carr, a child friend of Potter's, was the model for the fictional Lucie. Potter's Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny make cameo appearances in the illustrations. The Newlands Valley and the surrounding fells are the sources for the backgrounds in the illustrations.

NOTE: Mrs. Tiggy-winkle has been described as one of Potter's most positive creations, but critics consider Lucie an artistic failure. Although Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is set in an identifiable place and time period, the tale is mythologized by reaching back to an age when household chores were performed manually and without the aid of modern mechanical inventions. The simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Feb 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9788827564660

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The Tale of

Mrs Tiggy Winkle

Written and Illustrated By

Beatrix Potter

Author of The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, Etc.

Originally Published by

Frederick Warne & Co, Inc, London

[1905]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy Winkle

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

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Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom