Beatrix Potter: Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter: Beatrix Potter: Beatrix Potter ( 1866-1943) She is known as an English children's book writer, author and illustrator. She's a conservationist, facinated ...

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter( 1866-1943) She is known as an English children's book writer, author and illustrator. She's a conservationist, facinated by science. She had a deep interest in all creatures and even kept some of them for pets. She's a naturalist at heart.  During her early age, Potter took the outdoor like her own wonderland.

 She loves to go to the woods near her home whenever she got the chance. She was a very lonely child, until her brother came into the picture. His brother was named Bertram, who then was sent away  to boarding school by her parents. While Potter had only few friends and most of the time she's only with her nanny and other servants as Potter would only see her parents during bedtime and never really exerted enough effort to take control over her life and spends time together as family during special occasions only.

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She was educated at home and dont have much contact in the outside world. Must be her loneliness and isolation for Potter's imagination and devotion to nature creating an imaginary world of friends in her own young mind just  to keep herself company.

The iconic character, Peter Rabbit was actually named for a real life pet that Potter used to bring along with her. Perhaps that sense of isolation and longing, wanting to belong may have contributed to the popularity with children of Potter's stories. The tales and the wonder, the understanding of her loneliness that brought the experience of her being a young child.

When she reached her adulthood her facination with nature and science made her more interested in mycology. However her lack of official credentials and mostly her gender, kept her to pursue mycology which is the study of fungus.

What really spark "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" that ignited in 1893 is when Potter wrote a letter to Noel Moore, the ill child of her former nanny,  who was entrusted with her care and supervision  when she

was a child. And so to entertain the little boy, Potter wrote a letter about the four rabbits, Mopsy, Flopsy, Peter and Cottontail and their mother. In her letter, she illustrated the story with sketches that made the little boy entrhralled and so delighted to asked for more stories.

Anglican Vicar Hardwicked Rawnsley, was the first Poet and co-founder of National trust for Places of Historic Interest who recognized  Potters talent. He was the first adult to encourage Potter's drawing and flair for art.

The tale of Peter Rabbit was Officially published in 1902 and became an instant winner. Potter's next two books were The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and The Tailor of Gloucester. It also begun as illustrated letters to Noel Moore and his siblings.

As Potter's adulthood progressed, her writing and illustration continued. Her love of nature and animals made Potter bought Hill top, a farm that is in North West England in 1903, with her income from her published books. 

She met her husband and got married and live happily ever after. And  died in the year 1943, at the age of 77.