The Linda Lear papers on Beatrix Potter
About the collection
Linda Lear, award-winning biographer of Rachel Carson (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature published in 1997 and reprinted by Houghton Mifflin in 2009, has given Connecticut College her research archive for her biography of Beatrix Potter. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, was first published by St. Martin's Press in 2008. During the course of her research, Dr. Lear compiled a substantial archive of manuscripts, largely copied from other repositories and private collections, documenting Beatrix Potter's childhood and her career as an author and illustrator, naturalist, and conservationist.
Dates
- Creation: 1820 - 2019
Creator
- Lear, Linda J., 1940- (Collector, Person)
Extent
15 Linear Feet (This collection contains 35 document boxes and 2 oversized folders.)
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Research materials gathered by Linda Lear for her biography of Beatrix Potter, entitled Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature.
Arrangement
This series is organized into three series with subseries as needed. Series I.Chapter research materials,1820-2019; Series II.Beatrix Potter, A life in Nature publication materials,2000-2007; and Series III Related research materials,1866-2016.
- Title
- Inventory of the The Linda Lear papers on Beatrix Potter
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Linda Lear
Repository Details
Part of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository
Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Ave
New London CT 06320 United States
860-439-2654
860-439-2686
learcenter@conncoll.edu