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 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 online feature at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences

* Beatrix Potter in Cumbria

* Beatrix Potter Society, UK

* Beatrix Potter, A Life in Nature

Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

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.

Beatrix was educated by three able governesses, the last of whom was Annie Moore ( née Carter ), just three years older than Beatrix, who tutored Beatrix in German as well as acting as lady's companion.

Quite the contrary, Beatrix was devoted to the care of her small animals, often taking them with her on long holidays.

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.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

Queen Beatrix, who had been rushed to safety with the rest of the royal family, returned once the situation was under control and the ceremony was continued.

This was achieved through the marriage of Albert III, Duke of Austria to Beatrix of Nuremberg.

In these adaptations, Elijah Baley was portrayed by Peter Cushing ( The Caves of Steel ) and Paul Maxwell ( The Naked Sun ), R. Daneel Olivaw by John Carson ( The Caves of Steel ) and David Collings ( The Naked Sun ), and Susan Calvin by Beatrix Lehmann (" The Prophet ") and Wendy Gifford (" Liar !").

Less than a year later, Emperor Francis married his cousin Maria Ludovika Beatrix of Austria-Este, who was four years older than Marie Louise.

Beatrix was the daughter of the sculptor John Birnie Philip and his wife Frances Black.

Reference points might be taken as children's writer Beatrix Potter, John Betjeman ( more interested in Victoriana ), and the fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien, whose hobbit characters ' culture in The Shire embodied many aspects of the Merry England point of view.

Beatrix and her brother were allowed great freedoms in the country and both children became adept students of natural history.

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.

The society's mission is " to foster the art and science of horticulture and landscape design, with emphasis on the life and work of Beatrix Farrand.

Beatrix MacMillan, or simply Trix, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.

* 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly.

In their school room Beatrix and Bertram kept a variety of small pets, mice, rabbits, a hedgehog, some bats along with collections of butterflies and other insects which they drew and studied.

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.

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.

Her Journal reveals her growing sophistication as a critic as well as the influence of her father ’ s friend the artist Sir John Everett Millais who recognised Beatrix ’ s talent of observation.

As a way to earn a bit of money in the 1890s, Beatrix and her brother began to print Christmas cards of their own design, as well as cards for special occasions.