Beatrix Potter
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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.