Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Beatrix Potter" ¶ 21
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Potter and continued
Potter continued to write stories for Frederick Warne & Co. and fully participated in country life.
Potter continued to write stories and to draw, although mostly for her own pleasure.
This reputation has continued through the 1990s and into the 21st century with films such as the James Bond series, Gladiator ( 2000 ) and the Harry Potter franchise.
It has continued publishing the Harry Potter books, all of which have been record best sellers.
Meanwhile, Potter continued to distribute her privately printed edition to family and friends, with the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, acquiring a copy for his children.
There is also a touching moment at the end of the " Chief of Staff " episode in which Potter is surprised to see that his hospital office has been redecorated with his desk, paintings, saddle, and other items from the 4077th as " Suicide is Painless " is played ; Potter's portrait of Radar and his group portrait of Hawkeye, BJ, Houlihan, Winchester, Klinger, and Mulcahy ( from the 10th season episode " Picture This ") continued to be seen in his office through the remainder of the sequel series.
Animations continued to feature humorous antics or spoofs of then-relevant pop culture ( e. g., Harry Potter, N ' Sync, Britney Spears, Godzilla, etc.
" This propensity for hiring established actors continued as the soap progressed, with former Brookside actress Patricia Potter cast as registrar Diane Lloyd, Star Wars actor Denis Lawson cast as consultant Tom Campbell-Gore, and Family Affairs star Rocky Marshall cast as SHO Ed Keating.
( Potter ’ s music work continued later when she co-composed with David Motion the soundtrack to Orlando, and produced the score for The Tango Lesson, in which she also sang " I am You " in the film's final scene.

Potter and creating
The Lexicon is credited as creating one of the first timelines of all events occurring in the Harry Potter universe.
They also plan to create a permanent exhibition to the Harry Potter series in turn creating 300 jobs.

Potter and her
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.
Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.
Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour.
Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.
Potter at fifteen years with her English Springer Spaniel | springer spaniel, Spot
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.
Potter was eclectic in her tastes ; collecting fossils, studying archeological artifacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology.
It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper.
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.
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 1997 the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.
In her teenage years Potter was a regular visitor to the art galleries of London, particularly enjoying the summer and winter exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London.
Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.
Potter was pleased by this success and determined to publish her own illustrated stories.
In 1900, Potter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it-it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman's 1899 bestseller The Story of Little Black Sambo.
The firm declined Rawnsley's verse in favour of Potter's original prose, and Potter agreed to colour her pen and ink illustrations, choosing the then-new Hentschel three-colour process for reproducing her watercolours.
Potter used many real locations for her book illustrations, the Tower Bank Arms, Near Sawrey appears in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.
Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year for a total of twenty-three books.

Potter and little
His works include the Mexican films Sólo con tu pareja ( 1991 ), his feature debut, and the critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated film Y tu mamá también, as well as A little princess ( 1995 ), the Charles Dickens contemporary adaptation Great expectations ( 1998 ), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 2004 ) and, most recently, highly acclaimed dystopian thriller Children of Men ( 2006 ).
Potter acknowledged repeatedly that ' the way of the gamesman is hard, his training strict, his progress slow, his disappointments many ', and recognised that as a result ' the assiduous student of gamesmanship has little time for the minutiae of the game itself-little opportunity for learning how to play the shots, for instance '.
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.
* In " Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix " ( 2003 ), J. K. Rowling gives this example of baby talk, from Bellatrix Lestrange to Harry Potter: " The little baby woke up fwightened and fort what it dweamed was twoo.
He reluctantly appeared on television in an acting role in the 1980 London Weekend Television Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee and realised that television production values had little differences from those in the film industry ; as a result he launched a belated career in television.
IGN commented that those who had not read the books " may be left in the dark ", as there is very little narrative in the game, and tends to be aimed at Harry Potter fans.
Mark Thomas from Mania. com said it is something that parents could get into with their children, and a " little bit of Harry Potter, mixed with some Don Bluth, add a dash of Ralph Bakshi.
Audrey Potter has previously shown little interest in her daughter Gail's life.

Potter and books
With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a tiny village in the English Lake District near Ambleside in 1905.
Potter published over twenty-three books ; the best known are those written between 1902 and 1922.
Potter ’ s books continue to sell throughout the world, in multiple languages.
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.
Potter left almost all the original illustrations for her books to the National Trust.
* Harry Potter, books 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
* 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.
The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.
The viaduct has become known to millions in recent years as the " Harry Potter Bridge " after it featured in the films of the books by J. K. Rowling.
" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.
Gromit graduated from " Dogwarts University " (' Dogwarts ' being a pun on ' Hogwarts ', the wizard school from the Harry Potter books ) with a double first in Engineering for Dogs.
* The Wizengamot, a fictional organisation in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling, derives its name from the Witenagemot.
In the Harry Potter books, the Leaky Cauldron pub is located on Charing Cross Road.
In the Harry Potter books, non-magical people are often portrayed as foolish, sometimes befuddled characters who are completely ignorant of the Wizarding world that exists in their midst.
Rowling herself was sued for using the word " muggle " in the Harry Potter books.
** Some books, films, video games, and TV shows have one or more eponymous principal characters: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Emma, the Harry Potter series, The Legend of Zelda series, I Love Lucy, for example.
Educators regard Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and its sequels as an important aid in improving literacy because of the books ' popularity.

0.940 seconds.