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The Tailor of Gloucester

Author
Beatrix Potter
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
38 pages
ISBN
9781910343203
Published
15 May 2014
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.

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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