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.

Potter ’ s artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy.

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 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.

At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.

Potter continued to write stories for Frederick Warne & Co. and fully participated in country life.

He said at the time, " I still believe it outrageous to commit this country to the outcome of the war abroad and wish to limit that commitment as much as possible ," he wrote Potter Stewart, but " the question from now on is not one of principle it is one of military strategy and administrative policy.

Richardson designed many important single-family residences, but his famous John J. Glessner House ( Chicago, 1885 – 1887 ) is his best and most influential urban house, and the Mary Fisk Stoughton House ( Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1882 – 1883 ) and Henry Potter House ( St. Louis, 1886 – 1887, demolished 1958 ) play that role for suburban and country settings.

This stance lead to conflict with George Potter, the founder of the LTC's journal The Bee-Hive, who argued that the journal should give its support unreservedly to all strike action undertaken by trade unions throughout the country.

Potter was interested in preserving not only the Herdwick sheep, but the way of life of fell farming.

In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter ’ s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.

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.

Eventually, his character gave up wearing women ’ s clothing ( after a lecture from Colonel Sherman Potter, explaining how a Section 8 Discharge would adversely affect his life ).

* Fuller Potter ( 1910 – 1990 ), abstract expressionist artist, lived most of his life in town.

The 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, which depicts the life of young children attending Becky Fischer's Pentecostal summer camp, shows Fischer condemning the Harry Potter novels and telling the students that " Warlocks are enemies of God " ( see also Religious debates over the Harry Potter series ).

Mandella, with soldier, lover and companion Marygay Potter, returns to civilian life, only to find humanity drastically changed.

The dramatist Dennis Potter, most famous for The Singing Detective, lived in Ross in the later part of his life.

* Beatrix Potter ( 1866-1943 ), British author and artist, spent her early life in Bolton Gardens.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of novels, was born in Chipping Sodbury maternity hospital, and lived on Horse Street for the first few years of her life.

In the latter half of her life, the children's author Beatrix Potter was involved with keeping and breeding Herdwicks, even acting as president of the breed association for a time.

Potter followed up the success of Gamesmanship, extending the basic idea to many other aspects of life, in Some Notes on Lifemanship ( 1950 ), which was another big seller.

According to Joyce Grenfell, Potter had become bored with the joke by this time, " but for the rest of his life he found it difficult to speak or write naturally, so accustomed had he grown to the jocose gambits and ploys of his own invention.

In an interview with WBEZ, Lewis stated his association with the number 11 and how it has appeared multiple times throughout his life, such as being 11 years old when obtaining the role for Harry Potter, which has inspired him to obtain a tattoo of the number 11 on his right arm and to have myriad clothing with the number 11 on it.

An example of this is the Harry Potter story " A Moth to the Fire ", by Sera dy Relandrant, in which Ariana Dumbledore does not go out to play on the day she is attacked by muggle children in canon, and thus does not lose control of her magic, altering the life of her brother, Albus Dumbledore, and eventually the entire world.

See also De Potter, Vie de Scipion de Ricci ( 2 vols., Brussels, 1825 ), based on a manuscript life and a manuscript account of the synod placed on the Index in 1823.