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Denyer, Susan. At Home with Beatrix Potter. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2000.
Hervy, Canon G.A.K. and J. A. G. Barnes. Natural History of the Lake District. Frederick Warne, London, 1970.
Jay, Eileen; Noble, Mary; Hobbs, Anne Stevenson. A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter’s Drawings from the Armitt Collection. Frederick Warne, London, 1992.
Lane, Margaret. The Tale of Beatrix Potter, revised edition. Frederick Warne, London, 1968.
Linder, Leslie. A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter. Frederick Warne, London, 1971.
Potter, Beatrix. The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881–1897, transcribed by Leslie Linder. Frederick Warne, London, New Edition, 1966.
Potter, Beatrix. Beatrix Potter’s Letters, selected and edited by Judy Taylor. Frederick Warne, London, 1989.
Potter, Beatrix. Beatrix Potter: A Holiday Diary, transcribed and edited, with a foreword and a history of the Warne family, by Judy Tailor. The Beatrix Potter Society, London, 1996.
Rollinson, William. The Cumbrian Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore. Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire, UK, 1997.
Rollinson, William. Life and Tradition in the Lake District. Dalesman Books, 1981.
Taylor, Judy. Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman. Frederick Warne, London, Revised Edition, 1996.
Taylor, Judy; Joyce, Whalley, et al. Beatrix Potter, 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World. Penguin Group, London, 1987.