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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20051009
Author:Tim Auld

'Cecily Parsley lived in a pen, /And brewed good ale for gentlemen; /Gentlemen came every day, /Till Cecily Parsley ran away.' So runs the tale of the landlady rabbit - who, truth be told, may have been no better than she ought to be - in Beatrix Potter's 23rd and final book of children's tales Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes.

In fact, good ale wasn't the only thing Cecily brewed; she's actually busy preparing cowslip wine in the picture Potter chose for her book, and, as an unpublished illustration which appears as part of a new retrospective of Potter's life and work reveals, Cecily also ...

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