Elisha R. Potter was the Democratic candidate.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

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.

Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour.

Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation.

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

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy.

It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper.

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 September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

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.

Potter was also a canny businesswoman.

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

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

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.

Potter was a generous patron of the Girl Guides whose troops she allowed to make their summer encampments on her lands and whose company she enjoyed as an older woman.

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.

Tatler featured writers from Brown's eclectic circle including Julian Barnes, Dennis Potter, Auberon Waugh, Georgina Howell, and Nicholas Coleridge ( who today is the managing director of Conde Nast UK ).

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.

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 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 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.

Taurog, Potter and Chaikoff, 1955 ; ;

Taurog, Potter, Tong, and Chaikoff, 1956 ; ;

* Elmer, Robert P. ( Robert Potter ) ( 1917 ) American Archery ; a Vade Mecum of the Art of Shooting with the Long Bow Columbus, OH: National Archery Association of the United States

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

Potter published over twenty-three books ; the best known are those written between 1902 and 1922.

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.

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

* In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the mandrake root is cultivated by Professor Sprout to cure the petrification of several characters who had looked indirectly into the eyes of the Basilisk ; the author makes use of the legend of the mandrake's scream ( see above ), and anyone tending mandrakes wears earmuffs to dull the sound of the scream, if the plant must be transplanted.

The plots of neither " the Monk " nor " the Potter " are included in the Gest ; and neither is the plot of " Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne " which is probably at least as old as those two ballads although preserved in a more recent copy.

* Gardner, Martin, The Annotated Ancient Mariner, New York: Clarkson Potter, 1965 ; Reprinted by Prometheus Books, 19?

The status vir consularis was, as we have seen, conferred upon Odaenathus ; the title rex, or king, is simply a Latin translation of mlk, or king ; imperator in this context simply means " victorious general "; and dux Romanorum looks like yet another version of corrector totius orientis " ( Potter, 263 ).

The play Anne of the Thousand Days, the film's basis, was first enacted on Broadway in the Shubert Theatre on 8 December 1948 ; staged by H. C. Potter, with Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn respectively, running 288 performances ; Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, along with the rest of the Harry Potter series, has been attacked by several religious groups and banned in some countries because of accusations that the novels promote witchcraft ; however, some Christian commentators have written that the book exemplifies important Christian viewpoints, including the power of self-sacrifice and the ways in which people's decisions shape their personalities.

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.