Tiggy-winkle became a character performed by Sir Frederick Ashton in The Royal Ballet film, The Tales of Beatrix Potter. The tale has been published in braille and the Initial Teaching Alphabet, and has been translated into French, German, and Dutch. Tiggy-winkle became a popular character and the subject of considerable merchandise over the decades including nursery ware and porcelain figurines. The simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life. Tiggy-Winkle is set in an identifiable place and time period, the tale is mythologized by reaching back to an age when household chores were performed manually and without the aid of modern mechanical inventions. Tiggy-winkle has been described as one of Potter's most positive creations. The Newlands Valley and the surrounding fells are the sources for the backgrounds in the illustrations. Potter's Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny make cameo appearances in the illustrations. Lucie Carr, a child friend of Potter's, was the model for the fictional Lucie. Tiggy-winkle, and Kitty MacDonald, a Scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. Potter thought the book would be best enjoyed by girls, and, like most girls' books of the period, it is set indoors with a focus on housework. The two deliver freshly laundered clothing to the animals and birds in the neighbourhood. A human child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman (laundress) who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.

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