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She left almost all of her land holdings to the National Trust, preserving much of the land that now makes up the Lake District National Park. Join 530 other followers Follow A Dartmoor blog on WordPress. Beatrix Potter was born Jand passed away at 77 years of age on December 22, 1943. Would be rather amusing if Timmy Willie was DEFRA’s harvest mouse! The fable is basically a satire of town and country life – Johnny Town-Mouse is different from Timmy Willie Country Mouse – in fact Potter has made the difference even greater by painting Timmy Willie as a field vole and not a mouse at all! He has a short tail which the mice are too polite to comment on. However, the other squirrels believe that he is a thief so they imprison him in a hollow tree. Tittlemouse THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES (1911) Timmy Tiptoes is a little squirrel who is storing up nuts for the winter. This picture shows Timmy Willie (on the left) and Johnny Town Mouse (on the right) holding and eating some ears of wheat – a favourite food of harvest mice. Beatrix Potter decided to expand on her story by giving her her very own book. The nearest fit superficially is Timmy Willie – ‘the little country mouse’ in the Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse.
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I’m happy to be corrected but the mice in the books are either house mice, wood mice or dormice. This story was influential in children’s book world because it was the first animal story told from the point of view of the animal, without also delivering a sermon to its young. She almost certainly would have read Dorothy Kilner’s Life and Perambulations of a Mouse, published 1783. This got me thinking – which Beatrix Potter character was a harvest mouse? I have looked at all her books again in search of the harvest mouse but to be honest I can’t find one. The entire story of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. The press release has been picked up by many media outlets including one in China and this is perhaps due to the strap line of the press release “ Iconic harvest mouse immortalised by Beatrix Potter returns to Hampshire village where it was first discovered“.īy Reg Mckenna [CC BY 2.0 ( )%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
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This is excellent news and has added poignancy as in 1767 the famous naturalist Gilbert White actually discovered the species for the first time in the Parish of Selbourne. DEFRA recently issued a press release announcing that the harvest mouse had returned to Hampshire in the villages around Selbourne after it went extinct 25 years ago thanks to ‘an innovative new farming method’ which involved a group of individual farmers working together on a landscape scale.