Beatrix Potter

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BP gained fame as a writer of little books for children, about animals which to some degree resemble humans, illustrated in watercolour by herself. Some of them draw on fable, riddles, and fairy stories. She also created scientific drawings of plant life. Her ambitions as an author for adults remained largely unfulfilled.
  • BirthName: Helen Beatrix Potter
  • Married: Heelis
    The Orlando Project thanks Professor Patricia Demers for her contributions to this document.
Black-and-white photo portrait of Beatrix Potter taken at Birnamm Scotland in 1892. Standing and looking off-camera, she holds a rose in her left hand.
Photograph of the front jacket cover of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", by Beatrix Potter. Potter's drawing of Peter in his blue jacket, running on two legs before he loses his shoes, occupies the centre of the dark grey cover. Published by F. Warne and Co., 1902.

Milestones

28 July 1866

BP was born at a large house in Bolton Gardens, London; after it was destroyed by bombs during the Second World War she called her birthplace unloved.
MacDonald, Ruth K. Beatrix Potter. Twayne, 1986.
Chronology
qtd. in
Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press, 1995.
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16 December 1901

In the same year that BP sent her final picture letter to one of the Moore children, she published the first of those letters in a private edition, calling it The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
16 December 2008
MacDonald, Ruth K. Beatrix Potter. Twayne, 1986.
Chronology

December 1902

BP 's first and most famous book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, already privately printed, had its first regular edition from the publishing firm of Frederick Warne .
Richardson, Barbara. “Beatrix Potter: Her Early Editions Continue to Fetch Large Sums”. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol.
183
, June 1999, pp. 4-17.
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Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press, 1995.
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22 December 1943

BP died, leaving the National Trust Hill Top Farm and 5,000 acres of farmland which became the basis of the Trust's Lake District holdings.
MacDonald, Ruth K. Beatrix Potter. Twayne, 1986.
Chronology
Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press, 1995.
308

Biography

Birth and Family

28 July 1866

BP was born at a large house in Bolton Gardens, London; after it was destroyed by bombs during the Second World War she called her birthplace unloved.
MacDonald, Ruth K. Beatrix Potter. Twayne, 1986.
Chronology
qtd. in
Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press, 1995.
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