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.

Chris Noonan's 2006 biographical period drama, Miss Potter, traces the life and career of the cherished children's author ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Potter had put aside the book in 1914, the year the world fell apart. At the time, the author was absorbed by recent marriage, her father’s terminal illness and by trying to make a go of hill ...

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 ...