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The Tailor of Gloucester

Author
Beatrix Potter
Read by
Josh Verbae
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
20 minutes
ISBN
9781910833414
Published
15 September 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Simpkin
  • Peter Rabbit
  • Beatrix Potter
  • tales
  • children's classics
  • stoties
  • rabbit
  • bedtime
  • animals
  • woodlands

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Description

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 the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross-legged on a table, from morning till dark. All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, and lutestring; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of the Tailor of Gloucester. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) gave the world Peter Rabbit, then spent a lifetime proving she was more than a nursery name. A Victorian girl who drew what she saw — animals, plants, the texture of a garden wall — she made books in which every cabbage and jacket button earns its place. Later she became Mrs Heelis of the Lakes, a sheep farmer and a fierce guardian of countryside.

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