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RECOMMENDATION FOR A REAL-LIFE MR McGREGOR: Beatrix's mother, Helen Potter, had died on 20 December 1932. She had moved to the Lake District from London after her husband's death in 1914. In 1919, Beatrix had bought her Lindeth How which was "one of the large secluded grey granite Victorian houses on... Lake Windermere which the Potters had rented occasionally in earlier summers, and which required a sufficient number of servants for Mrs Potter, in her solitude, to feel at home... She lived in seclusion there until the age of ninety-three, with faculties unimpaired, and her way of life, with its punctuality and scrupulous observances, undergoing hardly any modifications' (Margaret Lane, The Tale of Beatrix Potter, 1946, pp. 149-50); see also Beatrix Potter's Letters, edited by Judy Taylor, 1989).