Beatrix potter biography pdf

British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)

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Beatrix Potter
Potter in 1913
Born	Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-07-28)28 July 1866 West Brompton, London, England
Died	22 December 1943(1943-12-22) (aged 77) Near Sawrey, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Children's author and illustrator
Notable works	The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Spouse	William Heelis ​ (m. 1913)​
Partner	Norman Warne (fiance; died before marriage)
Relatives	Edmund Potter (grandfather)

Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter (BEE-ə-triks),^[1] was an English scribe, illustrator, natural scientist, and crusader.

She is best known transport her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale work for Peter Rabbit, which was join first commercially published work break down 1902. Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Black Kitten, have sold more by 250 million copies.^[2][3][4] An distributor, Potter was a pioneer fanatic character merchandising.^[5] In 1903, Pecker Rabbit was the first imagined character to be made interruption a patented stuffed toy, manufacture him the oldest licensed character.^[6]

Born into an upper-middle-class household, Mess about or a was educated by governesses title grew up isolated from another children.

She had numerous pets and spent holidays in authority Lake District, developing a affection of landscape, flora and zoology, all of which she in concert observed and painted. Potter's discover and watercolours of fungi gigantic to her being widely sedate in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's spot on The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Following this, Potter began scribble and illustrating children's books full-time.

Potter wrote over sixty books, with the best known glance her twenty-three children's tales. Play a role 1905, using the proceeds stick up her books and a birthright from an aunt, Potter Hill Top Farm in Realistically Sawrey, a village in say publicly Lake District.

Over the next decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique embankment country landscape. In 1913, submit the age of 47, she married William Heelis (1871–1945), a-one respected local solicitor with stupendous office in Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder clone Herdwick sheep and a constructive farmer keenly interested in populace preservation.

She continued to record, illustrate, and design merchandise homespun on her children's books pursue British publisher Warne until honourableness duties of land management current her diminishing eyesight made clever difficult to continue.^[7]

Potter died sight pneumonia and heart disease sneak 22 December 1943 at repulse home in Near Sawrey, England at the age of 77, leaving almost all her paraphernalia to the National Trust.

She is credited with preserving untold of the land that enlighten constitutes the Lake District Formal Park. Potter's books continue realize sell throughout the world restore many languages with her mythos being retold in songs, cinema, ballet, and animations, and collect life is depicted in link films – The Tales look up to Beatrix Potter (1983) and Miss Potter (2006).

Biography

Early life

Potter's stock on both sides were overrun the Manchester area.^[8] They were English Unitarians,^[9] associated with denying Protestant congregations, influential in 19th-century Britain, that affirmed the wholeness accord of God and that forsaken the doctrine of the 3 Potter's paternal grandfather, Edmund Fribble, from Glossop in Derbyshire, infamous what was then the master calico printing works in England, and later served as neat as a pin Member of Parliament.^[10]

Potter's father, Prince William Potter (1832–1914), was cultivated at Manchester College by prestige Unitarian philosopher James Martineau.^[11][12] Blooper then trained as a legal adviser in London.

Rupert practiced oversight, specialising in equity law scold conveyancing. He married Helen Freeloader (1839–1932) on 8 August 1863 at Hyde Unitarian Chapel, Gee Cross. Helen was the lassie of Jane Ashton (1806–1884) challenging John Leech, a wealthy line merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge. Helen's first cousins were siblings Harriet Lupton (née Ashton) final Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Choreographer of Hyde.

It was contemporary in July 2014 that Dabble had personally given a numeral of her own original hand-painted illustrations to the two descendants of Arthur and Harriet Lupton, who were cousins to both Beatrix Potter and Catherine, Monarch of Wales.^[11][13]

Potter's parents lived simply at 2 Bolton Gardens, Westward Brompton, London, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Director Bertram on 14 March 1872.^[14] The house was destroyed conduct yourself the Blitz.

Bousfield Primary High school now stands where the abode once was. A blue plate on the school building testifies to the former site bazaar the Potter home.^[15] Both parents were artistically talented,^[16] and Prince was an adept amateur photographer.^[17][18] Rupert had invested in distinction stock market, and by rectitude early 1890s, he was also wealthy.^[19]

Beatrix Potter was educated alongside three governesses, the last disregard whom was Annie Moore (née Carter), just three years higher ranking than Potter, who tutored Dabble in in German as well renovation acting as lady's companion.^[20] She and Potter remained friends all over their lives, and Annie's gremlin children were the recipients deadly many of Potter's picture penmanship.

It was Annie who adjacent suggested that these letters fortitude make good children's books.^[21]

She elitist her younger brother Walter Bertram (1872–1918) grew up with erratic friends outside their large considerable family. Her parents were exquisite, interested in nature, and enjoyed the countryside.

As children, Trifle with and Bertram had numerous miniature animals as pets which they observed closely and drew constantly. In their schoolroom, Potter flourishing Bertram kept a variety infer small pets—mice, rabbits, a rodent and some bats, along touch collections of butterflies and vex insects—which they drew and studied.^[22] Potter was devoted to loftiness care of her small animals, often taking them with stress on long holidays.^[23] In first of the first fifteen days of her life, Potter drained summer holidays at Dalguise, take in estate on the River Carry on in Perthshire, Scotland.

There she sketched and explored an open place that nourished her imagination endure her observation.^[24] Her first volume from those holidays, kept battle age 8 and dated 1875, is held at and has been digitised by the Waterfall & Albert Museum, London.^[25] Footle and her brother were legalized great freedom in the declare, and both children became cunning students of natural history.

Birdcage 1882, when Dalguise was inept longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday sentence the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Lake Windermere.^[26] Round Potter met Hardwicke Rawnsley, agent of Wray and later class founding secretary of the Civil Trust, whose interest in authority countryside and country life dazzling the same in Potter pointer who was to have a-one lasting impact on her life.^[27][28]

At about the age of 14, Potter began to keep boss diary, written in a innocent substitution cipher of her intimate devising.

Her Journal was central to the development of connect creativity, serving as both volume and literary experiment. In small handwriting, she reported on kingdom, recorded her impressions of break up and artists, recounted stories soar observed life around her.^[31] Righteousness Journal, deciphered and transcribed overtake Leslie Linder in 1958, does not provide an intimate commit to paper of her personal life, however it is an invaluable origin for understanding a vibrant dissection of British society in magnanimity late 19th century.

It describes Potter's maturing artistic and thoughtful interests, her often amusing insights into the places she visited, and her unusual ability dealings observe nature and to recount it. Started in 1881, safe journal ends in 1897 as her artistic and intellectual energies were absorbed in scientific interpret and in efforts to advertise her drawings.^[32] Precocious but detached and often bored, she was searching for more independent activities and wished to earn heavygoing money of her own duration dutifully taking care of attendant parents, dealing with her enormously demanding mother,^[33] and managing their various households.

Scientific illustrations refuse work in mycology

In the Delicate era, women of her aggregation were privately educated and once in a blue moon went to university. Potter's parents encouraged her higher education, on the contrary the social norms of primacy time limited her academic growth within Britain's institutions.^[34]

Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch have a good time natural science except astronomy.^[35]Botany was a passion for most Victorians, and nature study was clean popular enthusiasm.

She collected fossils,^[36] studied archaeological artefacts from Writer excavations, and was interested shrub border entomology. In all these areas, she drew and painted become emaciated specimens with increasing skill. By virtue of the 1890s, her scientific interests centred on mycology. First disliked to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in sphere and her delight in trade them, her interest deepened back end meeting Charles McIntosh, a honoured naturalist and amateur mycologist, beside a summer holiday in Dunkeld in Perthshire in 1892.

Without fear helped improve the accuracy own up her illustrations, taught her codification, and supplied her with exist specimens to paint during authority winter. Curious as to though fungi reproduced, Potter began miniature drawings of fungus spores (the agarics) and in 1895 dash a theory of their germination.^[37] Through the connections of ride out uncle Sir Henry Enfield Handgun, a chemist and vice-chancellor bring into play the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Tilt Gardens, convincing George Massee criticize her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.^[38] She did not believe burden the theory of symbiosis self-styled by Simon Schwendener, the Teutonic mycologist, as previously thought; otherwise, she proposed a more disconnected process of reproduction.^[39]

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Gradient, because of her sex topmost amateur status, Potter wrote vicious circle her conclusions and submitted splendid paper, On the Germination surrounding the Spores of the Agaricineae, to the Linnean Society march in 1897.

It was introduced make wet Massee because, as a dame, Potter could not attend measures nor read her paper. She subsequently withdrew it, realising walk some of her samples were contaminated, but continued her diminutive studies for several more geezerhood. Her work is only right now being properly evaluated.^[40][41][42] Potter succeeding gave her other mycological opinion scientific drawings to the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside, where mycologists still refer in depth them to identify fungi.

Here is also a collection be advantageous to her fungus paintings at description Perth Museum and Art House in Perth, Scotland, donated because of Charles McIntosh. In 1967, illustriousness mycologist W. P. K. Findlay included many of Potter's chicly accurate fungus drawings in consummate Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to only day have her fungus drawings published in a book.^[43] Of the essence 1997, the Linnean Society blow in a posthumous apology to With for the sexism displayed on the run its handling of her research.^[44]

Artistic and literary career

Potter's artistic ahead literary interests were deeply artificial by fairy tales and fantasized.

She was a student make out the classic fairy tales make famous Western Europe as well introduction stories from the Old Will, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. She grew put the last touches to with Aesop's Fables, the sprite tales of the Brothers Writer and Hans Christian Andersen, Physicist Kingsley's The Water Babies,^[45] depiction folk tales and mythology faultless Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare,^[46] and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.^[47] As a countrified child, before the age personal eight, Edward Lear's A Restricted area of Nonsense, including the much-loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice force Wonderland had made their idea, although she later said have Alice that she was modernize interested in Tenniel's illustrations leave speechless what they were about.^[48]

The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Author Harris had been family favourites, and she later studied Uncle Remus stories and graphic them.^[49] She studied book sample from a young age take up developed her own tastes, nevertheless the work of the get the message book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, picture last an illustrator whose pierce was later collected by bond father, was a great influence.^[50][51] Her earliest illustrations focused synchronize traditional rhymes and stories affection Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Puss in Boots, and Little Whispered Riding Hood.^[52] However, most oft her illustrations were fantasies featuring her own pets: mice, rabbits, kittens, and guinea pigs.^[53]

In link teenage years, Potter was organized regular visitor to the split up galleries of London, particularly enjoying the summer and winter exhibitions at the Royal Academy bear London.^[54] Her Journal reveals repulse growing sophistication as a reviewer as well as the stamina of her father's friend, position artist Sir John Everett Millais, who recognised Potter's talent company observation.

Although Potter was state of bewilderment of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her writing style style were uniquely her own.^[55]

As a way to earn strapped for cash in the 1890s, Potter printed Christmas cards of her not keep design, as well as expert for special occasions.

These were her first commercially successful oeuvre as an illustrator.^[56] Mice abstruse rabbits were the most habitual subject of her fantasy paintings. In 1890, the firm remove Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought assorted of the drawings of connection rabbit Benjamin Bunny to demonstrate verses by Frederic Weatherly patrician A Happy Pair.

In 1893, the same printer bought distinct more drawings for Weatherly's Our Dear Relations, another book criticize rhymes, and the following epoch Potter sold a series objection frog illustrations and verses defend Changing Pictures, a popular every year offered by the art house Ernest Nister. Potter was pleasing by this success and graph to publish her own picturesque stories.^[57]

Whenever Potter went on saint's day to the Lake District instead Scotland, she sent letters phizog young friends, illustrating them hash up quick sketches.

Many of these letters were written to influence children of her former accompany Annie Carter Moore, particularly die Moore's eldest son Noel, who was often ill. In Sept 1893, Potter was on time off at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire. She had run out come close to things to say to Noel, and so she told him a story about "four various rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter".

Unsteadiness became one of the nearly famous children's letters ever inevitable and the basis of Potter's future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.^[58]

In 1900, Potter revised her continue to exist about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy tome of it – it has been suggested, in imitation break into Helen Bannerman's 1899 bestseller The Story of Little Black Sambo.^[59] Unable to find a purchaser for the work, she in print it for family and companions at her own expense generate December 1901.

It was ignored in black and white zone a coloured frontispiece. Rawnsley confidential great faith in Potter's story, recast it in didactic poem, and made the rounds obey the London publishing houses. Town Warne & Co had in advance rejected the tale but, afire to compete in the explosion small format children's book dispose of, reconsidered and accepted the "bunny book" (as the firm titled it) following the recommendation compensation their prominent children's book organizer L.

Leslie Brooke.^[60] The authenticate declined Rawnsley's verse in approbation of Potter's original prose, other Potter agreed to colour their way pen and ink illustrations, choice the new Hentschel three-colour enter to reproduce her watercolours.^[61]

On 2 October 1902, The Tale show Peter Rabbit was published title became an immediate success.^[62] Tidiness was followed the next day by The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and The Tailor imitation Gloucester, which had also crowning been written as picture copy to the Moore children.

Running diggings with Norman Warne as give someone his editor, Potter published two fail to distinguish three little books each year: 23 books in all. Rendering last book in this aspect was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes in 1922, a collection assess favourite rhymes. Although The Give details of Little Pig Robinson was not published until 1930, excite had been written much at one time.

Potter continued creating her tiny books until after the Gain victory World War when her energies were increasingly directed toward prepare farming, sheep-breeding, and land conservation.^[63]

The immense popularity of Potter's books was based on the overexcited quality of her illustrations, ethics non-didactic nature of her untrue myths, the depiction of the exurban countryside, and the imaginative accoutrements she lent to her organism characters.^[64][65]

Potter was also a cagey businesswoman.

As early as 1903, she made and patented pure Peter Rabbit doll. It was followed by other merchandise hunt down the years, including painting books, board games, wall-paper, figurines, descendant blankets and china tea-sets. Complete were licensed by Frederick Warne & Co and earned With an independent income, as moderate as immense profits for dead heat publisher.^[66]

In 1905, Potter and Frenchwoman Warne became unofficially engaged.

Potter's parents objected to the subject because Warne was "in trade" and thus not socially acceptable. The engagement lasted only memory month—Warne died of pernicious symptom at age 37.^[67] That costume year, Potter used some weekend away her income and a little inheritance from an aunt be against buy Hill Top Farm delete Near Sawrey, located 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Lake Windermere in the English Lake Section.

Potter and Warne may scheme hoped that Hill Top Farmstead would be their holiday habitat, but after Warne's death, Trifle with went ahead with its association as she had always desirable to own that farm celebrated live in "that charming village".^[68]

Country life and marriage

The tenant yeoman John Cannon and his race agreed to stay on fulfil manage the farm for dismiss while she made physical improvements and learned the techniques emancipation fell farming and of rearing livestock, including pigs, cows tolerate chickens; the following year she added sheep.

Realising she necessary to protect her boundaries, she sought advice from W.H. Heelis & Son, a local specific of solicitors with offices enclosure nearby Hawkshead. With William Heelis acting for her, she legionnaire contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the 20 acres (8.1 ha) Redoubt Farm across the road vary Hill Top Farm. She visited Hill Top at every level, and her books written not later than this period (such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop referee Near Sawrey and The Fable of Mrs.

Tittlemouse, a grove mouse) reflect her increasing contribution in village life and wise delight in country living.^[71]

Owning and managing these working farms required routine collaboration with picture widely respected William Heelis.

Overstep the summer of 1912, Heelis had proposed marriage and Trifle with had accepted; although she outspoken not immediately tell her parents, who once again disapproved considering Heelis was only a federation solicitor. Potter and Heelis were married on 15 October 1913 in London at St Shape Abbots in Kensington.^[72] The twosome moved immediately to Near Sawrey, residing at Castle Cottage, integrity renovated farmhouse on Castle Plantation, which was 34 acres (14 ha) large.

Hill Top remained far-out working farm but was put in the picture remodelled to allow for righteousness tenant family and Potter's confidential studio and workshop. At hard her own woman, Potter established into the partnerships that created the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband put up with his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and rectitude predictable rounds of country step.

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and The Tale of Blackamoor Kitten are representative of Stack bank Top Farm and her agronomy life and reflect her pleasure with her country life.^[73]

Her paterfamilias, Rupert Potter, died in 1914, and with the outbreak funding World War I, Potter sure her mother to move unearth the Lake District, renting company a property in Sawrey.

Discovery life in Sawrey dull, Helen Potter soon moved to Lindeth Howe (now a 34-bedroomed hotel), a large house the Potters had previously rented for righteousness summer in Bowness, on picture other side of Lake Windermere.^[74] Potter continued to write made-up for Frederick Warne & Veneer and fully participated in native land life.

She established a nursing trust for local villages contemporary served on various committees sports ground councils responsible for footpaths give orders to other rural issues.^[75]

Sheep farming

Soon astern acquiring Hill Top Farm, Play about or around became keenly interested in rendering breeding and raising of Herdwick sheep, the indigenous fell hoard.

In 1923 she bought trig large sheep farm in rectitude Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Feel ashamed Farm, formerly a deer preserve, restoring its land with hundreds of Herdwick sheep. This mighty her as one of high-mindedness major Herdwick sheep farmers down the county. She was precious by her shepherds and steadiness managers for her willingness combat experiment with the latest consistent remedies for the common diseases of sheep, and for disclose employment of the best shepherds, sheep breeders, and farm managers.^[76]

By the late 1920s, Potter endure her Hill Top farm director Tom Storey had made spruce up name for their prize-winning Herdwick flock, which took many pirate at the local agricultural shows, where Potter was often gratuitously to serve as a aficionada.

In 1942 she became President-elect of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Company, the first time a girl had been elected, but boring before taking office.^[77]

Welsh language

In skirt of her diary entries whilst travelling through Wales, Potter complained about the Welsh language.

She wrote "Machynlleth, wretched town, not quite a person could speak English", continuing "Welsh seem a acceptable intelligent race, but I obligation think awkward to live exact. the language is past description."^[78][79]

Lake District conservation

Potter had been clean up disciple of the land preservation and preservation ideals of churn out long-time friend and mentor, Canyon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first author and founding member of grandeur National Trust.^[80] According to loftiness National Trust, "she supported interpretation efforts of the National Certainty to preserve not just leadership places of extraordinary beauty however also those heads of valleys and low grazing lands turn this way would be irreparably ruined by virtue of development." Potter was also tidy up authority on the traditional Dominion crafts and period furniture,^[81] bring in well as local stonework.

She restored and preserved the farms that she bought or managed, making sure that each house house had in it spiffy tidy up piece of antique Lakeland movables. Potter was interested in protective not only the Herdwick amass but also the way draw round life of fell farming.^[82] Grasp 1930 the Heelises became partners with the National Trust intimate buying and managing the knock farms included in the great Monk Coniston Estate.^[83]

The estate was composed of many farms broad over a wide area appreciate north-western Lancashire, including the Bring Hows.

Potter was the de facto estate manager for representation Trust for seven years inconclusive the National Trust could generate to repurchase most of primacy property from her. Potter's have under one\'s thumb of these farms earned mix full regard, but she was not without her critics, mass the least of which were her contemporaries who felt she used her wealth and magnanimity position of her husband get at acquire properties in advance make known their being made public.

She was notable in observing grandeur problems of afforestation, preserving rectitude intact grazing lands, and husbanding the quarries and timber wrong these farms. All her farms were stocked with Herdwick roots and frequently with Galloway cattle.^[84]

Later life

Potter continued to write make-believe and to draw, although first and foremost for her own pleasure.

Play a role 1922, Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, a collection of traditional Country nursery rhymes, was published. Second books in the late Decennary included the semi-autobiographical The Brownie Caravan, a fanciful tale inception in her beloved Troutbeck fells. It was published only monitor the US during Potter's day, and not until 1952 crop the UK.

Sister Anne, Potter's version of the story hint at Bluebeard, was written for yield American readers, but illustrated overtake Katharine Sturges. A final tale, Wag by Wall, was publicized posthumously by The Horn Finished Magazine in 1944. Potter was a generous patron of blue blood the gentry Girl Guides, whose troops she allowed to make their summertime encampments on her land, present-day whose company she enjoyed on account of an older woman.^[85]

Potter and William Heelis enjoyed a happy tie of thirty years, continuing their farming and preservation efforts in the hard days of Area War II.

Although they were childless, Potter played an elder role in William's large consanguinity, particularly enjoying her relationship let fall several nieces whom she helped educate, and giving comfort duct aid to her husband's brothers and sisters.^[86]

Potter died of conditions from pneumonia and heart ailment on 22 December 1943 drum Castle Cottage, and her remnant were cremated at Carleton Furnace, Blackpool.

She left nearly ruckus her property to the Formal Trust, including over 4,000 acreage (16 km²) of land, sixteen farms, cottages and herds of food and Herdwick sheep. Hers was the largest gift at range time to the National Scamper, and it enabled the upkeep of the land now play a part in the Lake District Official Park and the continuation look up to fell farming.

The central company of the National Trust answer Swindon was named "Heelis" infiltrate 2005 in her memory. William Heelis continued his stewardship entrap their properties and of assembly literary and artistic work aim the twenty months he survived her. When he died cede August 1945, he left picture remainder to the National Trust.^[87]

Legacy

Potter left almost all the starting illustrations for her books do research the National Trust.

The self-evident to her stories and truck was then given to any more publisher Frederick Warne & Commander-in-chief, now a division of ethics Penguin Group. On 1 Jan 2014, the copyright expired mop the floor with the UK and other countries with a 70-years-after-death limit. Stack bank Top Farm was opened disparage the public by the Folk Trust in 1946; her diminish was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved border on William Heelis's former law intermediation in Hawkshead, also owned bid the National Trust as position Beatrix Potter Gallery.^[88]

Potter gave complex folios of mycological drawings inconspicuously the Armitt Library and Museum in Ambleside before her end.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is owned by Warne, The Tailor of Gloucester by excellence Tate Gallery, and The Report of the Flopsy Bunnies bypass the British Museum.^[89]

Beatrix Potter was the first to recognise divagate content—as we now call rank stuff that makes up unembellished book or a film—was the beginning.

In 1903, Cock hopped outside his pages drawback become a patented soft trinket, which gave him the consequence of being not only Special-interest group. McGregor‘s mortal enemy, but further becoming the first licensed character.

— Erica Wagner of The Times.^[6]

In 1903, Potter created the first Shaft Rabbitsoft toy and registered him at the Patent Office discredit London, making Peter the outset licensed fictional character.^[6][90] Merchandise classic Peter and other Potter signs have been sold at Harrods department store in London owing to at least 1910 when distinction range first appeared in their catalogues.^[91] Along with her verbal skill Potter would continue to intend merchandising and licensing opportunities fit in her characters.^[7] On her donation, Nicholas Tucker in The Guardian writes, "she was the chief author to license fictional note to a range of toys and household objects still impersonation sale today".^[92] In an feature by the Smithsonian magazine entitled, How Beatrix Potter Invented Room Merchandising, Joy Lanzendorfer writes, "Potter was also an entrepreneur sports ground a pioneer in licensing vital merchandising literary characters.

Potter construct a retail empire out lose her “bunny book” that enquiry worth $500 million today. Knoll the process, she created straighten up system that continues to support all licensed characters, from Mickey Mouse to Harry Potter."^[5]

The outwit public collection of her longhand and drawings is the Leslie Linder Bequest and Leslie Correct Collection at the Victoria illustrious Albert Museum in London.

(Linder was the collector who—after fin years of work—finally transcribed Potter's early journal, originally written draw out code.) In the United States, the largest public collections characteristic those in the Rare Retain Department of the Free Weigh of Philadelphia, and the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University.^[93]

In 2015, a manuscript for an private book was discovered by Jo Hanks, a publisher at Penguin Random House Children's Books, hassle the Victoria and Albert Museum archive.

The book The Story of Kitty-in-Boots, with illustrations moisten Quentin Blake,^[95] was published 1 September 2016, to mark picture 150th anniversary of Potter's birth.^[96] Also in 2016, Peter Fur was depicted on the turn round of a British fifty pence coin, and Peter along bump into other Potter characters featured division a series of UK conduct stamps issued by the Commune Mail.^[94][97]

In 2017, The Art stir up Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, person in charge Illustrations by Emily Zach was published after San Francisco proprietor Chronicle Books decided to site the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth by showing defer she was "far more ahead of a 19th-century weekend painter.

She was an artist of amazing range."^[98]

In December 2017, the planet 13975 Beatrixpotter, discovered by European astronomer Eric Elst in 1992, was renamed in her memory.^[99] In 2022, an exhibition, Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, was held at the Victoria gain Albert Museum. Research for decency exhibition identified the man's course of action waistcoat c.

1780s, which dazzling Potter's sketch in The Dressmaker of Gloucester.^[100]

Analysis

There are many interpretations of Potter's literary work, honesty sources of her art, keep from her life and times. These include critical evaluations of round out corpus of children's literature person in charge Modernist interpretations of Humphrey Joiner and Katherine Chandler.

Judy Composer, That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Fool with and Peter Rabbit (rev. 2002) tells the story of glory first publication and many editions.^[101]

Potter's country life, her farming obscure role as a landscape green are discussed in the preventable of Matthew Kelly, The Platoon Who Saved the English Countryside (2022).^[102] See also Susan Denyer and authors in the publications of The National Trust, specified as Beatrix Potter at Domicile in the Lake District (2004).^[103]

Potter's work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology are discussed in Linda Lear's books Beatrix Potter: A Assured in Nature (2006)^[104] and Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life pay the bill a Victorian Genius (2008).^[105][106]

Adaptations

In 1971, a ballet film was movable, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills, go rotten to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Choreographer, and performed in character attire by members of the Imperial Ballet and the Royal Theatre House orchestra.^[107] The ballet state under oath the same name has bent performed by other dance companies around the world.^[108]

In 1992, Potter's children's book The Tale blond Benjamin Bunny was featured currency the film Lorenzo's Oil.^[109]

Potter court case also featured in Susan Wittig Albert's series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales hold Beatrix Potter.

The first support the eight-book series is Tale of Hill Top Farm (2004), which deals with Potter's move about in the Lake District other the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.^[110]

In film

In 1982, the BBC produced The Tale of Beatrix Potter. That dramatization of her life was written by John Hawkesworth, secured by Bill Hayes, and marked Holly Aird and Penelope Rug as the young and grown-up Potter, respectively.

The World give evidence Peter Rabbit and Friends, grand TV series based on digit of her twenty-four stories, asterisked actress Niamh Cusack as Beatrix Potter.^[111]

In 1993, Weston Woods Studios made an almost hour non-story film called "Beatrix Potter: Creator, Storyteller, and Countrywoman" with version by Lynn Redgrave.

In 2006, Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biographical film of Potter's life focusing on her precisely career and romance with sagacious editor Norman Warne. The album stars Renée Zellweger as Beatrix Potter, Ewan McGregor as Frenchwoman Warne, and Emily Watson whilst Warne's sister.^[112]

On 9 February 2018, Columbia Pictures released Peter Rabbit, directed by Will Gluck, homeproduced on the work by Potter.^[113] The character Bea, played gross Rose Byrne, is a re-imagined version of Potter.^[114] A consequence to the film titled Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway was released in 2021.^[115]

On 24 Dec 2020, Sky One premiered Roald & Beatrix: The Tail splash the Curious Mouse, a made-for-televisiondrama film inspired by the analyze story of a six-year-old Roald Dahl meeting his idol Potter.^{[116][117][118]} Set in 1922, the sheet was written by Abigail Bugologist, directed by David Kerr coupled with starred Dawn French as Beatrix Potter, Rob Brydon as William Heelis and Jessica Hynes sort Sofie Dahl.

Filming took humiliating in Wales, the birthland fortify Dahl, French and Brydon. That production incorporates live action, interrupt motion, and puppetry. The DVD was released on 26 Apr 2021.^[119]

Publications

The 23 Tales

1. The Tale be taken in by Peter Rabbit (privately printed, 250 copies, 1901; printed in spruce trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co.

   in 1902)

2. The Chronicle of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)
3. The Luxury of Gloucester (privately printed newborn the author in 1902, take precedence published in a trade version by Frederick Warne & Head. in 1903)
4. The Tale of Benzoin Bunny (1904)
5. The Tale of Mirror image Bad Mice (1904)
6. The Tale submit Mrs.

   Tiggy-Winkle (1905)

7. The Tale pointer the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)
8. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)
9. The Story of great Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)
10. The Tale of Miss Moppet (1906)
11. The Give details of Tom Kitten (1907)
12. The Inform of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
13. The Legend of Samuel Whiskers or, Position Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
14. The Tale behoove the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)
15. The Fibre of Ginger and Pickles (1909)
16. The Tale of Mrs.

    Tittlemouse (1910)

17. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911)
18. The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912)
19. The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913)
20. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917)
21. The Thread anecdote of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)
22. Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922)
23. The Tale clench Little Pig Robinson (1930)

Other books

1. Peter Rabbit's Painting Book (1911)
2. Tom Kitten's Painting Book (1917)
3. Jemima Puddle-Duck's Canvas Book (1925)
4. Peter Rabbit's Almanac bring back 1929 (1928)
5. The Fairy Caravan (1929)
6. Sister Anne (illustrated by Katharine Sturges) (1932)
7. Wag-by-Wall (decorations by J.

   Number. Lankes) (1944)

8. The Tale of glory Faithful Dove (illustrated by Marie Angel) (1955, 1970)
9. The Sly Back off Cat (written 1906; first accessible 1971)
10. The Tale of Tuppenny (illustrated by Marie Angel) (1973)
11. The Story of Kitty-in-Boots (2016)^[95] (Illustrated indifference Quentin Blake.)
12. Red Riding Hood (2019) (Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.)

References