Tupenny's House, The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter, Cumbria
N 54° 22.496 W 002° 59.938
30U E 500067 N 6025238
The Fairy Caravan was written for Beatrix Potter's American readers as a long children's story. Many drawings from her early life of this area are included in this book, and some say it refers to people still living at time of publishing.
Waymark Code: WM10QG
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/05/2006
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A line drawing of the old bank building appears as Tuppeny's house in The Fairy Caravan. Tuppeny is a short haired guinea pig, much put upon by his wife and life. Two pedlars (rats) sell a bottle of hair growth tonic to his friends, who rub it in to Tuppeny, to judge its effectiveness. His hair grows prodigiously. All this is illustrated, showing inside and outside of old bank.
Opposite the Beatrix Potter gallery is the old Barclay's bank, formerly Martin's bank, before they were taken over. Nowadays the ticket office for the gallery. The Fairy Caravan uses experiences from Beatrix Potter's earlier life when she was on holiday with her parents. They stayed at 'Postlethwaite's' (now Queen's Head Inn) in August 1896. It was over 30 years later when she was just married that she wrote the book.
Published by David McCay Company (1929), first only in America, through author's insistence, and reluctantly in England later by author's English publishers.
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