The Doll’s House Yesterday we walked to Hill Top House, the rural retreat of the writer Beatrix Potter, whose books were a staple of my childrens’ early lives. It’s an interesting and evocative place and though I’d been there once (after the pandemic) I thought it’d be nice to revisit, not least because of the huge (and beneficial) impact she had on the Lake District (where we’re on holiday). Her house is now maintained by the National Trust (to which she bequeathed it) and is kept as it was when she died. This time I had a single objective — to photograph the doll’s house in one of the first-floor rooms. Screenshot The background story of the doll’s house is interesting. According to Wikipedia, her 1904 book, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, was inspired by the conjunction of two things: two mice caught in a cage-trap in her cousin’s home; and a doll’s house being constructed by her editor and publisher, Norman Warne, as a Christmas gift for his niece Winifred. The tale is about two mice…
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