Beatrix potter - wikipedia

She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit , which was her first commercially published work in Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children.

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She had numerous pets and spent holidays in the Lake District , developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time. Potter wrote over sixty books, with the best known being her twenty-three children's tales. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In , at the age of 47, she married William Heelis — , a respected local solicitor with an office in Hawkshead.

Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation.

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She continued to write, illustrate, and design merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. Potter died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December at her home in Near Sawrey, England at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust.

She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in songs, films, ballet, and animations, and her life is depicted in two films — The Tales of Beatrix Potter and Miss Potter Potter's family on both sides were from the Manchester area.

Potter's paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter , from Glossop in Derbyshire , owned what was then the largest calico printing works in England, and later served as a Member of Parliament.