I recently bought a book call Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales. It is a wonderful book! Of course I'm a little prejudice, since I've loved her writings since I was child. Actually, I've grown to love her even more as an adult, because of her attention to details about the home, cooking, and gardening. She truly had a green thumb, and a most wonderful sense of artistic abilities. You can see it in her books of course but even in her yard, farms, decorating and clothing.