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.

Potter ’ s books continue to sell throughout the world, in multiple languages.

Potter ’ s family on both sides was from the Manchester area.

Potter ’ s paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned the largest calico printing works in England at the time, and later served as a Member of Parliament.

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.

It describes Potter ’ s maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it.

Beatrix Potter ’ s parents did not discourage higher education.

Findlay included many of Potter ’ s beautifully accurate fungi drawings in his Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungi drawings published in a book.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

" It became one of the most famous children ’ s letters ever written and the basis of Potter ’ s future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.

The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter ’ s private studio and work shop.

It was published only in the US during Potter ’ s lifetime, and not until 1952 in the UK.

Sister Anne, Potter ’ s version of the story of Bluebeard was written especially for her American readers but illustrated by Katharine Sturges.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

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.

There are many interpretations of Potter ’ s literary work, the sources of her art, and interpretations of her life and times.

Potter ’ s country life and her farming has also been widely discussed in the work of Susan Denyer and by other authors in the publications of The National Trust.

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.

Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.

Potter pays tribute to Tamagno's vocal attributes in his book about the history of tenor singing, averring that his " recorded legacy " is " a priceless connection with Verdi " while Steane, writing in The Grand Tradition ( pp. 19 – 23 ), praises Tamagno's discs as " artistic and devoted performances by a singer of exceptional gifts " with a " great voice ".

He says the EMI Board were not enthused, and Nat Cohen had never heard of Beatrix Potter, but he had complete artistic control for any movie made under one million pounds so could get it approved.

Potter bought the house and its working farm in July 1906 as her home away from London and her artistic retreat.

In 1988 a humorous book called The Book of Revelations ( Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine ) printed a parody of both Beatrix Potter and Sven Hassel entitled Peter Rabbit-Tank Killer, lampooning the fashion of the period for unscrupulous publishers and literary estates to draft in famous authors to pen " continuations " of their most successful characters and series.

At the end of the war, Potter took on a number of concurrent literary tasks.

Potter had become well enough known overseas to be invited to give a literary lecture tour of America.

By making the hero of the tale a disobedient and rebellious little rabbit, Potter subverted her era's definition of the good child and the literary hero genre which typically followed the adventures of a brave, resourceful, young white male.

Hwang is the author of some of the best-known stories in the modern Korean literary canon, including “ Stars ” ( 1940 ), “ Old Man Hwang ” ( 1942 ), “ The Old Potter ” ( 1944 ), “ Cloudburst ” ( 1952 ), “ Cranes ” ( 1953 ) and “ Rain Shower ”( 1959 ).

Described by his publishers as " one of the leading authorities on the Harry Potter books as read in the context of English literature ," his specialist interests are iconological literary criticism, the post-modern qualities of and Rowling's use of literary alchemy and eye symbolism in the Harry Potter novels, and the allegorical and anagogical aspects of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga.

Lord Voldemort () Alfonso Cuarón, director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban compared Voldemort with George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, as the two of them "... have selfish interests and are very much in love with power.

In 1892, Webb married Beatrice Potter, who shared his interests and beliefs.

The apparent discrimination against shifting cultivators caused a confrontation between FAO and environmental groups, who saw the FAO supporting commercial logging interests against the rights of indigenous people ( Potter 1993, 108 ).

More than 40 student-initiated clubs and activities cover interests ranging from art and books and investment to Japanese anime and Harry Potter.

Although he seems to have tempered his socialist leanings as editor of the Witness, Potter ’ s interests in matters relating to economics fitted well with the dire economic climate of the Great Depression, which marked much of his time with the paper.

Some of Pacey's romantic interests were Tamara Jacobs ( Season 1 ), Andie McPhee ( Season 2 ), Audrey Liddel ( Season 5 ), and Joey Potter, his true love.

An urban school will have over 100 or 200 students per year, science labs and well-stocked computer labs, clubs based on different interests ( from math, film and drama to Harry Potter ), teaching assistants and psychologists, freetyiuy speech therapy and academic programs for gifted students, whereas rural schools are usually tiny, with some, in villages, providing only 4 years education — the rest being offered at a nearby larger village, having only one teacher for all students ( generally under 10 students in total ) — a situation almost identical to the one existing at the turn of the 20th century.

Potter continued creating her little books until after the First World War when her energies were increasingly directed toward her farming, sheep-breeding and land conservation.

All were licensed by Frederick Warne & Co. and earned Potter an independent income as well as immense profits for her publisher.

Potter and Heelis were married on 15 October 1913 in London at St. Mary Abbots in Kensington.

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

* Both the books Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, which were written by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling as a way to raise funds for Comic Relief, are written as reference books for the wizarding world.

Hydro-metallurgical, and magnetic separation methods were also tried, but the main breakthrough came in 1902 when Delprat and Potter independently devised processes that would eventually be patented as the Delprat-Potter method.

Her earliest American ancestors were the immigrants John Anthony ( 1607 – 1675 ), who was from Hempstead, Essex, and his wife, Susanna Potter ( c. 1623-1674 ), who was from London, Middlesex.

In 2010, Warner announced its intention to buy Leavesden Film Studios near London, where the Harry Potter films were shot, making Warner Bros. the first studio since MGM in the 1940s to establish a permanent base in Europe.

In August 1999 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone topped the New York Times list of best-selling fiction, and stayed near the top of the list for much of 1999 and 2000, until the New York Times split its list into children's and adult sections under pressure from other publishers who were eager to see their books given higher placings.

Nicholas Tucker described the early Harry Potter books as looking back to Victorian and Edwardian children's stories: Hogwarts was an old-style boarding school in which the teachers addressed pupils formally by their surnames and were most concerned with the reputations of the houses with which they were associated ; characters ' personalities were plainly shown by their appearances, starting with the Dursleys ; evil or malicious characters were to be crushed rather than reformed, including Filch's cat Mrs Norris ; and the hero, a mistreated orphan who found his true place in life, was charismatic and good at sports, but considerate and protective towards the weak.

Video games loosely based on the book were released between 2001 and 2003, generally under the American title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

In October 2010, the Dillas were evicted from Potter County Memorial Stadium, as Reunion Sports Group, the parent company of the Dillas, could not pay the $ 75, 000 lease on the stadium.

Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens, but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopold Robert, Salvatore Rosa and Karel Dujardin.

The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764.

Potter and DeMello both were opened in 1955 and are mirror images of each other, with Quinn, currently one of the largest elementary schools by population in Massachusetts, opening in 2002 in the former middle school building.

In December 1856, and additional were taken from Middlesex ( Modern Potter contains ).

Over the years, other communities were formed from Moon: Raccoon Township in 1837, Phillipsburg Borough in 1840 ( now Monaca ), and Potter Township in 1912.

The distinctive Moorish Style ornamental metalwork and lighting in Highland Park Village were created by Potter Art Metal Studios, a 90-year-old custom metalwork company still in existence today.