Beatrix Potter
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Artists, Artisans, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Potter, an English writer and illustrator of such children’s books as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was also an early member of England’s National Trust for the preservation of properties of historic value or natural beauty. She donated four thousand acres of Lake District farmland to preserve the area’s rural quality of life.
Early Life
Helen Beatrix Potter was born to middle-class parents in a fashionable rural suburb of London in 1866 at the very height of Victorian England’s prosperity and dominance on the world stage. Her...
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