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 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.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a fan of Gilliam's work.

The work was almost certainly principally written by Thomas Potter, and from internal evidence can be dated to around 1755.

Potter painted his son Dirck Tulp, but only changed the face on an earlier work he was not able to sell.

His most famous painting not to be confused with his work " The Bull " is The Young Bull ( circa 1647 ), that is now in Mauritshuis in The Hague, composed after drawings Potter made in nature.

The best-known practitioner in this genre is English taxidermist Walter Potter, whose most famous work is The Death and Burial of Cock Robin.

The work was almost certainly principally written by Thomas Potter, and from internal evidence can be dated to around 1755.

* Dennis Potter, author and playwright who frequently used the region as a setting in his work, was born near Coleford.

In a period of time leading up to 2003, legal pressure from the licensors of Harry Potter led an Indian publisher to stop publication of Harry Potter in Calcutta, a work in which Harry meets figures from Bengali literature.

Whitehouse criticised the work of Dennis Potter from Son of Man ( 1969 ) onwards, arguing that the BBC was at the centre " of a conspiracy to remove the myth of god from the minds of men ", and also A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 ).

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won several awards, including the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for best work for young readers, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year for children's books.

His major work was an intervention in another controversy, undertaken in defence of Christopher Potter, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, against the Jesuit Edward Knott.

Other hints of the autobiographical nature of the work are the protagonist's surname, ' Mandella ', which is a near-anagram of the author's surname, as well as the name of the lead female character, Marygay Potter, which is nearly identical to Haldeman's wife's maiden name.

The work was published after the publication of the sixth volume in the Harry Potter series, but before publication of the seventh and final volume.

She plans to continue acting and to work behind-the-scenes after filming Harry Potter.

Potter later gave her other mycological drawings and scientific drawings to the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside where mycologists still refer to them to identify fungi.

His Harry Potter fan fiction story Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality illustrates topics in cognitive science and rationality ( The New Yorker described it as " a thousand-page online ' fanfic ' text called ' Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality ', which recasts the original story in an attempt to explain Harry's wizardry through the scientific method "), and has been favorably reviewed by authors David Brin & Rachel Aaron, Robin Hanson, Aaron Swartz, and by programmer Eric S. Raymond.

* December 22 – Beatrix Potter, British children's author and illustrator ( Peter Rabbit & Jemima Puddle-duck ) ( b. 1866 )

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton has an international reputation for being one of the UK's leading design institutions and it has educated many key figures in the Arts, Turner Prize winners Keith Tyson and Rachel Whiteread studied at the Faculty of Arts, as did Keith Coventry, the winner of 2010 John Moores Painting Prize, the artist Alison Lapper, Cliff Wright, illustrator of the Harry Potter books, the designer Julien Macdonald and the writer-illustrator Emily Gravett.

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.

Wright was the obvious choice for the cover illustrator of the third Harry Potter book as well.

Peter Rabbit was created by British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, prompting Burgess to note, " I like to think that Miss Potter gave Peter a name known the world over, while I with Mr. Cady's help perhaps made him a character.

Tales of Beatrix Potter is a 1971 ballet film based on the children's stories of English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter.

Several big names of the Harry Potter series have been on MuggleCast, such as Mary GrandPré, the illustrator of the Harry Potter books published by Scholastic, Jim Dale, who had narrated the American version of the books, Patrick Doyle, the composer of the fourth film, Warwick Davis, who played Professor Filius Flitwick and Griphook, David Heyman, producer of the Harry Potter films, David Yates, director of the final four Potter films, and Oliver Phelps, who played George Weasley in the films.

The house was once the home of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter who left it to The National Trust.

Hill Top once belonged to Beatrix Potter, the children's author and illustrator known for the series of small format Peter Rabbit books.

Mary GrandPré is an American illustrator and writer, best known for her cover and chapter illustrations for the American editions of the Harry Potter books, published by Scholastic.

This 1, 900 acre ( 7. 7 km² ) sheep farm was bought by the children's book author and illustrator Beatrix Potter in 1923, it was in danger of development and so she decided to purchase it.