![]() ![]() Tiggy-Winkle, the author's pet hedgehog began to sicken and was laid to rest in the garden of the Potter family home in Kensington. She is a comical, round little woman, as brown as a berry and wears a multitude of petticoats and a white mutch." Sadly, shortly after the publication of Mrs. Potter's description of Kitty MacDonald in her journal indicates how closely the character appears to have been modelled on her: "Kitty is eighty-three but waken and, delightfully merry. Tiggy-Winkle, Potter used the dual inspiration of her own pet hedgehog of the same name and a Scottish washerwoman named Kitty MacDonald with whom she was acquainted. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. ![]() The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. Tiggy-Winkle, first edition, first or second printing with date on title and "How Keld" on p.20, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine sunned, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, but a sharp and excellent copy overall,, 16mo, 1905. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. ![]()
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