What Trust did the author of The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck leave her house to?
Hill Top, Cumbria Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria. It is an example of Lakeland vernacular architecture with random stone walls and slate roof. The house was once the home of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter who left it to the National Trust. It is a Grade II* listed building. It is open to the public as a writer's house museum, shown as Beatrix Potter herself would have known it. The address is Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Hawkshead, Ambleside, LA22 0LF.
Muriel Wood After graduating from the Canterbury College of Art, she began illustrating children's books. She taught illustration at the Ontario College of Art for ten years. Among the books she has illustrated are "The Olden Days Coat" by Margaret Laurence, "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery, "Old Bird" by Irene Morck, "Lizzie's Storm" by Sally Fitz-Gibbon, "Scared Sarah" by Mary Alice Downie, and "Aram's Choice" and "Call Me Aram" by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. Her illustrations have also appeared on Canadian postage stamps. She lives with her husband, graphic artist David Chestnutt, in Toronto, Ontario.