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Beatrix Potter was born in London on July 28, 1866 and was actually christened Helen after her mother, but was known by her more unusual middle name: Beatrix. 2.
Beatrix Potter grew up in an upper class family in reserved, Victorian England. They lived in London but summered in the country, in Scotland or the Lake District.
Beatrix Potter in about 1905 at her farm Hill Top. ZUMA Press. Even as a teenager, Beatrix could be caustic in her appraisal of other people’s art, especially when their renderings of plants and ...
Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century.
Beatrix Potter, sketchbook kept at age nine, dated March–April 1876. Photo ©Victoria & Albert Museum, London, courtesy Frederick Warne and Co Ltd.
A BEATRIX Potter 50p coin owned by a Droitwich resident is on sale for over £100. The coin, which is listed on eBay, is a ...
Beatrix Potter was already 47 years old when, in 1913, she at last won her freedom from her family by marrying William Heelis, the solicitor who had assisted her with the purchase of her ...
The correspondence is published in the 1989 book, "Beatrix Potter's Letters," by Judy Taylor. What glues Potter's tales together is her art. Anthropomorphic but also morphologically rendered, ...
Anna Russell on Beatrix Potter’s life, art, writing (“The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” etc.), and secret coded journal, and on the upcoming Potter exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
Mrs. Rabbit pours out tea for Peter as his sisters look on in an illustration by Beatrix Potter. (Ellie Atkins/Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.) Review by Philip Kennicott NEW YORK — As a boy, I never ...