# Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle — Short Fiction character guide

> Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in Short Fiction by Beatrix Potter.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, dear Mrs. Tiggy-winkle

**First appearance:** 0005-the-tale-of-mrs-tiggy-winkle

## Snapshot

A washerwoman with hairpins sticking wrong end out of her cap, who returns every animal's lost laundry and then vanishes up the hill.

## Who they are

Mrs. Tiggy-winkle lives behind a door in the hill at Cat Bells, where she washes and irons the small brown coats, moleskin waistcoats, and shrunk blue jackets of half the countryside. Her brown, soap-wrinkled hands and her sideways tea with Lucie make her at once homely and faintly uncanny. When she runs up the hill and shrinks into a prickled hedgehog, the tale leaves the reader to decide what was dream and what was washing.

## In the story

### [The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mrs-tiggy-winkle)

The hedgehog washerwoman who launders clothes for the animals and birds.

### [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations)

Appears in illustrations with other animals at the sale and in the shop.

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