Helen Beatrix Potter, but known to the world as Beatrix Potter, is an English authur, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist. She was born in 28th July,1866, in London.
The Potters were a privileged unitarian family, and being born to this type of family, along with her little brother Walter Walter Bertram, caused her to have few friends outside of her family. But it is the possiblity that her parents, Rupert and Helen Potter, are also the reason for her success in the future; since they were enjoyed nature and the contryside, as well being artistic.
As a child, Beatrix and her brother had many small pets that she used to draw and observed (this strong explains the detail of her animal characters have). She also spent her summer holidays in Scotland and the English Lake District, and like her parents became a nature lover herself. Until she was 18, she was taught by private governesses which she learned history, science, literature and languges, apparantly she was a very eager to be taught, espeacially in her private lessons in art since even at a young age her talent for art was aknowleged, watercolour being her favourite.
Along with drawing of animals,she also illustrated insects, fossils, historical objects and fungi. her research & illustrations on the fungi and their reproduction caused interest from scientists.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published on 2nd October in 1902 by Frederick Warne & Co , was the first of what will be a long series of children stories and a world success for being one of the best-selling books of all time. It sold 45 million copies, in 36 diferent launguages. The story was written for one of Beatrix Potter’s old private governesses’s 5 year old son, in 1893.
In the 15th October, 1913, Beatrix married William Heelis.
On 22nd December, 1943 at Castle Cottaged, Beatrix Potter died, from a mix of heart disease and Pneumonia, she was 77 years old.
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