Beatrix Potter

Children's Author

Beatrix Potter was born in Kensington, London, England on July 28th, 1866 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 77, Beatrix Potter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Helen Beatrix Potter
Date of Birth
July 28, 1866
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Kensington, London, England
Death Date
Dec 22, 1943 (age 77)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Networth
$10 Million
Profession
Botanist, Children's Writer, Illustrator, Mycologist, Novelist, Painter, Scientific Illustrator, Writer
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Beatrix Potter Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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William Heelis ​(m. 1913)​
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Children's author and illustrator
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Siblings
Edmund Potter (grandfather)
Beatrix Potter Life

Beatrix Potter (born in the United States, 1866 to 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, geologist, and conservator best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children as a result of their birth into an upper-middle class household.

She had many pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, inciting a keen interest in landscape, flora, and fauna, which she closely observed and painted. Although Potter was typical of women of her time in requiring little opportunities for higher education, her research and watercolours of fungi culminated in her being highly respected in the field of mycology.

Potter self-published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, a children's book that was hugely popular in her thirties.

Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full time. Potter wrote thirty books, the most well-known being her twenty-three children's tales.

Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in Lancashire at the time, with the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt.

She bought additional farms to protect the unique hill country landscape over the past decade.

She married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead, in 1913 at the age of 47.

Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a wealthy farmer interested in land conservation.

She continued to write and illustrate, as well as produce spin-off books based on her children's books for British publisher Warne, until land management and her diminishing eyesight stopped it from continuing. Potter died of pneumonia and heart disease at her home in Near Sawrey on December 22, 1943, leaving virtually all of her property to the National Trust.

She has been credited with preserving a portion of the land that now makes up Lake District National Park.

Potter's books have sold in various countries, with her tales being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, as well as her life depicted in a feature film and television film.

Later life

Potter continued to write stories and draw, but mainly for her own pleasure. Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes was published in 1922; a complete set of Potter's four original watercolour illustrations to the rhyme "This Little Piggy" sold for £60,000 in 2012. The Fairy Caravan, a semi-autobiographical story set in her beloved Troutbeck's fall, was one of her books in the late 1920s. During Potter's lifetime, it was only in the United States, not in the United Kingdom until 1952. Anne, Potter's interpretation of Bluebeard's tale, was written for her American readers but Katharine Sturges illustrated it. In 1944, The Horn Book Magazine published a final folk tale, Wag by Wall. Potter was a generous patron of the Girl Guides, whose troupes she allowed to host their summer encampments on her property and whose company she enjoyed as an older lady.

Potter and William Heelis enjoyed a happy marriage of thirty years, preserving their farming and preservation efforts during World War II's brutal days. Though they were childless, Potter was instrumental in William's large family, especially enjoying her friendship with several nieces whom she helped educate, as well as providing support and assistance to her husband's brothers and sisters.

Potter died of respiratory and heart disease at Castle Cottage on December 22, 1943, and her remains were cremated at Carleton Crematorium, Blackpool. She gave nearly all of her land to the National Trust, including over 4,000 acres (16 km2) of farmland sheep and Herdwick sheep. Hers was the largest gift to the National Trust at the time, and it enabled the conservation of the property that now belongs in the Lake District National Park and the continuation of fell farming. In 2005, the National Trust in Swindon's central office was named "Heelis" in honor of her memory. During the twenty months that she lived, William Heelis maintained his stewardship of their buildings as well as her literary and artistic work. When he died in August 1945, he left the remainder to the National Trust.

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Do you have a hidden fortune on your bookshelf?From The Hobbit to The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, the children's books that are worth thousands

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 10, 2024
Experts have found that they are often sold out to charity shops or left to gather dust in the attic, but your favorite childhood books may well be worth a fortune. A completely working copy of the first edition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) may sell for more than £12,000, while a first edition of Dr Seuss' book The Cat In The Hat (1957) could be worth £13,300. It comes after a missed proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on sale at Bishton Hall in Staffordshire cost just 13p, after a private UK buyer made the winning bid at Hansons Auctioneers at Bishton Hall. The book, which was bought at a secondhand book store in 1997 as a 'throw in' with a handful of other novels for a total of $40p, misspells JK Rowling's name as 'JA Rowling' on the inside cover and uses the author's full name 'Joanne'.

Operation Tiggywinkle, the ambitious attempt to trap EVERY hedgehog from the Scot isles

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 9, 2024
They are one of the country's most popular animals. Hedgehogs, on the other hand, aren't welcome everywhere. Every single one of the creatures from a group of Scottish islands is being eradicated by conservationists. Teams of hunters and a vast network of traps are set to be sent shortly in an effort to capture thousands of hedgehogs on Uist. The animals are not native to the Hebrides and are considered a threat to the islands' globally important birdlife - because they feast on eggs. Up to 100 hedgehogs a week could be trapped if out foraging for food. Once the creatures have been checked out in a special'rehabilitation center' on the isles, they will be sent off to new homes on the Scottish mainland.

Inside the stunning Lake District hotel that provides the PERFECT vantage point over lake Windermere

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 8, 2024
On the shores of the famous lake, Ashlie McAnally checks in to The Langdale Chase hotel, which is synonymous with author Beatrix Potter and poet William Wordsworth. The Grade II listed building, which was the first residence at Windermere to have electricity, became a hotel in 1930. Its appearance was seen in the 1946 Alfred Hitchcock film The Paradine Case and in 1988 BBC drama Across the Lake, starring Anthony Hopkins. Daniel Thwaites, a hospitality company, acquired the boutique hotel in 2017, which reopened in November after a year-long, multi-million pound renovation.