Who wrote the story the Tailor of Gloucester?
The Tailor of Gloucester voice of Simpkin and Ian Holm the tailor. The episode was dedicated to Dianne Jackson who died of cancer on New Year's Eve 1992. The Tailor of Gloucester The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For
The Tailor of Gloucester and the action of "The Tailor of Gloucester" takes place in the 18th century. Potter sketched the Gloucester street where the tailor's shop stood as well as cottage interiors, crockery, and furniture. The son of Hutton's coachman posed as a model for the tailor. In Chelsea, Potter was allowed to sketch the interior of a tailor's shop to whose proprietor she would later send a copy. She visited the costume department at the South Kensington Museum to refine her illustrations of 18th century dress. Potter later borrowed Freda Moore's gift copy, revised the work, and privately printed the tale in