Lear, Linda (2008). Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141003108. OCLC 901925986. Potter's later life saw her depart from writing to focus on her work relating to land sustainability and conservation. She and William enjoyed thirty years of marriage living a simple life in Near Sawrey, uninterested in the trappings of wealth. Potter's family on both sides were from the Manchester area. [7] They were English Unitarians, [8] associated with dissenting Protestant congregations, influential in 19th century England, that affirmed the oneness of God and that rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. Potter's paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned what was then the largest calico printing works in England, and later served as a Member of Parliament. [9] The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897", By Beatrix Potter, Transcribed by Leslie Linder (Published by Warne, 1989) Free online Dictionary of English Pronunciation – How to Pronounce English words". howjsay.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2021 . Retrieved 6 October 2017.

Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbitt and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle on anniversary stamps". BBC News. 28 July 2016 . Retrieved 4 September 2016. Potter, Beatrix (1977). Margaret Crawford Maloney (ed.). Dear Ivy, Dear June: Letters from Beatrix Potter. Toronto Public Library. ISBN 978-0-8037-2050-3. Beatrix Potter was born and raised in London, the eldest child of parents who had both inherited Lancashire cotton fortunes. Her father Rupert, a qualified barrister, married her mother Helen in 1863. They left their family roots in the industrial Midlands to live in a large house in the exclusive area of South Kensington, London. It was here, at number two Bolton Gardens, that Beatrix Potter was born in July 1866 and raised in an affluent Victorian household complete with maids, cooks, butlers and nursemaids. She died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film.By the age of 14, she had started a journal, written in code, to record her thoughts, ideas and sketches and kept it up until the age of 30. Her early sketches included detailed images of her pets and other animals. Her father, a talented amateur photographer, had friendships within the London art world including the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (1829–1896), whose family would holiday with the Potters in Perthshire, Scotland. Millais recognised Potter's talent, telling her: 'Plenty of people can draw, but you have observation.' With the encouragement of her father, Potter went on to study at the National Art Training School in London (now the Royal College of Art). In 1993, Weston Woods Studios made an almost hour non-story film called "Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman" with narration by Lynn Redgrave. In 2006, Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biographical film of Potter's life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne. The film stars Renée Zellweger as Beatrix Potter, Ewan McGregor as Norman Warne, and Emily Watson as Warne's sister. [109]

There were 32 drawings for The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies in Potter's will, which were presented to the British Museum in 1946. The group consists of 28 watercolours reproduced for the front cover and the illustrations beside the text, along with four preliminary studies for them, two of which are executed entirely in pen. They're something of an exception in the Museum's graphic collection as book illustrations have never been the focus for collecting, but such was the fame and quality of Beatrix Potter's drawings that they were gratefully accepted and have featured in two recent external exhibitions of her work. Nowadays it's super easy to get a doll or a plushie of your favourite character - but before Peter Rabbit it was almost unheard of! In 1903 Beatrix made her own Peter Rabbit doll and registered it with the patent office. A board game and Peter Rabbit wallpaper were also produced in her lifetime, and now you can get all the Beatrix Potter merch you could ever dream of! 14. She didn't always get on with her mum Potter's work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology are discussed in Linda Lear's books Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (2006) [101] and Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius (2008). [102] [103] Adaptations [ edit ] In 1903, following the success of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, came The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, a story about a red squirrel's narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown. During a great period of creativity, fourteen more tales followed in just seven years.Beatrix's father, Rupert William Potter (1832–1914), was educated at Manchester College by the Unitarian philosopher Dr James Martineau. He then trained as a barrister in London. Rupert practised law, specialising in equity law and conveyancing. He married Helen Leech (1839–1932) on 8 August 1863 at Hyde Unitarian Chapel, Gee Cross. Helen was the daughter of Jane Ashton (1806–1884) and John Leech, a wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge. Helen's first cousin was Harriet Lupton (née Ashton) – the sister of Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde. It was reported in July 2014 that Beatrix had personally given a number of her own original hand-painted illustrations to the two daughters of Dr Arthur and Harriet Lupton, who were cousins to both Beatrix and the Duchess of Cambridge. On 2 October 1902, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published and was an immediate success. [61] It was followed the next year by The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and The Tailor of Gloucester, which had also first been written as picture letters to the Moore children. Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year: 23 books in all. The last book in this format was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes in 1922, a collection of favourite rhymes. Although The Tale of Little Pig Robinson was not published until 1930, it had been written much earlier. Potter continued creating her little books until after the First World War when her energies were increasingly directed toward her farming, sheep-breeding and land conservation. [62]

Lorenzo's Oil (1992) – Full Credits". TCMDB. TCM.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019 . Retrieved 26 March 2019. Lear 2007, pp. 405–440; Taylor, ed., Beatrix Potter's Letters; Taylor, et al., The Artist and Her World. Taylor, et al. 1987, pp. 107–148; Katherine Chandler, "Thoroughly Post-Victorian, Pre-Modern Beatrix." Children's Literature Quarterly. 32(4): 287–307. Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her sex and her amateur status, Potter wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper, On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae, to the Linnean Society in 1897. It was introduced by Massee because, as a woman, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper. She subsequently withdrew it, realising that some of her samples were contaminated, but continued her microscopic studies for several more years. Her paper has only recently been rediscovered [ citation needed], along with the rich, artistic illustrations and drawings that accompanied it. Her work is only now being properly evaluated. [39] [40] [41] Potter later gave her other mycological and scientific drawings to the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside, where mycologists still refer to them to identify fungi. There is also a collection of her fungus paintings at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth, Scotland, donated by Charles McIntosh. In 1967, the mycologist W. P. K. Findlay included many of Potter's beautifully accurate fungus drawings in his Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungus drawings published in a book. [42] In 1997, the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research. [43] Artistic and literary career [ edit ] First edition, 1902 In 1992, Potter's children's book The Tale of Benjamin Bunny was featured in the film Lorenzo's Oil. [106]

11. She was very successful in her lifetime

Scientific illustrations and work in mycology [ edit ] Beatrix Potter: reproductive system of Hygrocybe coccinea, 1897 Helen Beatrix Potter (British English /ˈbiːətrɪks/, North American English also /ˈbiːtrɪks/, 28 July 1866– 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Terrace, Vincent (2008). Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials, Volume 2. New York, NY: McFarland. p.405. ISBN 978-0786433056. McDowell, Marta (2013). Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the classic children's tales. Timber Press. p.116. ISBN 978-1604693638. Taylor, Judy. "Potter, (Helen) Beatrix (1866–1943)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016 . Retrieved 14 January 2007.

Potter, Beatrix (1982). Jane Crowell Morse (ed.). Beatrix Potter's Americans: Selected Letters. The Horn Book, Inc. ISBN 978-0-87675-282-1. Beatrix Potter and the Linnean Society". Linnean Society. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011 . Retrieved 1 November 2011. Walk in Beatrix Potter's footsteps". National Trust. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020 . Retrieved 4 October 2021. The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites, and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them. [48] She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence. [49] [50] When she started to illustrate, she chose first the traditional rhymes and stories, " Cinderella", " Sleeping Beauty", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", " Puss-in-boots", and " Red Riding Hood". [51] However, most often her illustrations were fantasies featuring her own pets: mice, rabbits, kittens, and guinea pigs. [52] Beatrix Potter's London". Londonist.com. 26 January 2016. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018 . Retrieved 19 September 2017.Potter, Beatrix (1987). Leslie Linder (ed.). A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter. F. Warne & Co. ISBN 978-0-7232-3562-0. Taylor, Judy (2002). That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit. F. Warne & Co. ISBN 978-0-7232-4767-8. Bruce L. Thompson, 'Beatrix Potter's Gift to the Public'. Country Life (3 March 1944), 370–371; Taylor, et al., The Artist Storyteller, Ch. 6; Lear 2007, pp. 441–447. A lost story called The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots was discovered in 2013, and published in 2016! There was only one sketch of the kitty in question, so legendary illustrator Quentin Blake stepped up to complete the book! 20. You can visit her home! Potter's country life, her farming and role as a landscape perservationist are discussed in the work of Matthew Kelly, The Women Who Saved the English Countryside (2022). [99] See also Susan Denyer and authors in the publications of The National Trust, such as Beatrix Potter at Home in the Lake District (2004). [100]