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The book's title character and protagonist is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost. He finds himself on the farm of a man named Mr. Piperson. Pigling Bland discovers that another pig, a young female black pig named Pig-wig, is being held prisoner in the farmhouse. At the end of the story, Pigling Bland and Pig-wig escape from Mr. Piperson's farm and begin a new life together.

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  • The Tale of Pigling Bland
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  • The book's title character and protagonist is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost. He finds himself on the farm of a man named Mr. Piperson. Pigling Bland discovers that another pig, a young female black pig named Pig-wig, is being held prisoner in the farmhouse. At the end of the story, Pigling Bland and Pig-wig escape from Mr. Piperson's farm and begin a new life together.
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Preceded By
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod
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  • Beatrix Potter
Published
  • 1913(xsd:integer)
Followed By
  • Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
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  • The book's title character and protagonist is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost. He finds himself on the farm of a man named Mr. Piperson. Pigling Bland discovers that another pig, a young female black pig named Pig-wig, is being held prisoner in the farmhouse. At the end of the story, Pigling Bland and Pig-wig escape from Mr. Piperson's farm and begin a new life together. Beatrix Potter owned a farm named Hill Top and kept several pigs. In a 1909 letter to Millie Warne, the sister of Potter's late fiancĂ© Norman Warne, Beatrix Potter describes having to sell two pigs because they ate too much. Potter began work on The Tale of Pigling Bland at around the time the letter was written. The character of Pig-wig is based on a Berkshire pig that Beatrix Potter bought from a farmer named Townley. Potter kept the animal as a pet because John Cannon, who managed Hill Top farm on Beatrix Potter's behalf, did not want a black pig on the farm. The period during which The Tale of Pigling Bland was written was one in which Beatrix Potter got engaged and prepared to move to Castle Cottage, a larger property near to Hill Top farm. Many critics see this reflected in the book's themes of finding a soulmate and starting a new life. Potter, however, denied that the characters of Pigling Bland and Pig-wig were supposed to represent her fiancĂ© William Heels and herself. The Tale of Pigling Bland has been adapted for the stage, radio, film and television.
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