Potter, (Helen) Beatrix

Potter, (Helen) Beatrix
born July 28, 1866, South Kensington, Middlesex, Eng.
died Dec. 22, 1943, Sawrey, Lancashire

English author and illustrator of children's books.

In her childhood Potter spent holidays in Scotland and the English Lake District, which inspired her love of animals and stimulated her imaginative and technically superb watercolour drawings. The illustrated animal stories she sent to a sick child when she was 27 were published as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), which became one of the best-selling children's books of all time. More than 20 sequels followed, featuring such original characters as Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.

Beatrix Potter, 1913

Pictorial Parade/London Daily Express, reproduced by permission of Frederick Warne & Co.

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