Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

She and Beatrix remained friends throughout their lives and Annie's eight children were the recipients of many of Potter ’ s delightful picture letters.

Beatrix Potter ’ s parents did not discourage higher education.

Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy.

Beatrix Potter Heelis became keenly interested in the breeding and raising of Herdwick sheep, the indigenous fell sheep, soon after acquiring Hill Top Farm.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

Judy Taylor, That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit, rev.

Potter ’ s work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology is highlighted in several chapters in Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, 2007 ; Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

In 1982, the BBC produced The Tale of Beatrix Potter.

Potter is also featured in a series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert.

* Potter, Beatrix.

The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881 – 1897, transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder.

* Beatrix Potter ’ s fossils and her interest in geology-B. G. Gardiner

* Beatrix Potter in Cumbria

* Beatrix Potter Society, UK

* Beatrix Potter, A Life in Nature

Dutch euro coins have two designs by Bruno Ninaber van Eyben, both of which feature a portrait or effigy of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

The Fairy Caravan, a novel by Beatrix Potter, and Michael Bond's Olga da Polga series for children, both feature guinea pigs as the central protagonist.

The gardens were created by Dorothy Elmhirst with the involvement of major landscape designers Beatrix Farrand and Percy Cane and feature a tiltyard ( thought actually to be the remains of an Elizabethan water garden ) and major sculptures, including examples by Henry Moore, Willi Soukop and Peter Randall-Page.

Tales of Beatrix Potter is the only feature film directed by Mills, who is best known as a film editor.

Carole Scott writes in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit that the reader cannot help but identify with rebellious little Peter and his plight as all the illustrations are presented from his low-to-the-ground view, most feature Peter in close-up and within touching distance, and Mr. McGregor is distanced from the reader by always being depicted on the far side of Peter.

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

For most of the first fifteen years of her life, Beatrix spent summer holidays at Dalguise, an estate on the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland.

As a result, Beatrix came to meet Hardwicke Rawnsley, incumbent vicar at Wray and later the founding secretary of the National Trust, whose interest in the countryside and country life inspired the same in Beatrix and who was to have a lasting impact on her life.

About the age of 14 Beatrix, like many girls at the time, began to keep a diary.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives at Huis ten Bosch and works at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague.

Jekyll's series of thematic gardening books emphasized the importance and value of natural plantings and were influential in the U. S. In 1913 Beatrix married Max Farrand, the accomplished historian at Stanford University in California and Yale University in Connecticut, and the first director of the Huntington Library in California.

At age 86 Beatrix Farrand died at the Mount Desert Island Hospital on February 28, 1959.

* Finding aid to the Beatrix Farrand Collection at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley

A similar effect occurs in the Knight of the Swan romance, in the Beatrix variants of the Swan-Children ; her taunt is punished by giving birth to seven children at once, and her wicked mother-in-law returns her taunt before exposing the children.

While this time upset citizens did not call for the queen's abdication because the true object of their wrath, Princess Beatrix, would then be queen, they did start to question the value of having a monarchy at all.

The Queens Juliana and Beatrix and crown-prince Willem-Alexander studied at Leiden University.

Claus and Beatrix met at the wedding-eve party of Princess Tatjana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, in the summer of 1964.

Crown prince Willem Alexander and his brothers attended school ( Nieuwe Baarnse School and Baarnsch Lyceum ) in Baarn when Queen Beatrix ( then princess ) and her family lived at Castle Drakesteijn in the village of Lage Vuursche, before they moved to The Hague in 1980.

Over 130 years later, Her Majesty Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, appointed W. T. Block Jr. ( his son ) as " Knight of the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau " in a ceremony held at the Tex Ritter Park in Nederland, Texas.

Both American and British Mensa's youngest members joined at the age of two, such as Beatrix Townsend, Elise Tan Roberts, and Oscar Wrigley, all from England, and Emmelyn Roettger from America.

When you arrive at the Queen Beatrix airport, most of the major rental cars companies are across the driveway, including Hertz, Avis and Alamo.

The rich and famous tried to outdo each other with entertaining and estates, often hiring landscape gardener and landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, a resident at local Reef Point Estate, to design their gardens.

" The landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, at the Cadwalder Rawle-Rhinelander Jones family summer home Reef Point Estate, designed the gardens for many of these people.

In 1967, Allen and Beatrix Gardner established a project to teach Washoe ASL at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter passed a summer holiday at nearby Fawe Park and used its gardens as background for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.

On Friday, September 10, 1971, Alberto Ginastera's opera, Beatrix Cenci premiered at the Kennedy Center's Opera House.