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Beatrix Potter, the writer of one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was a woman of great talent, strong spirit, and generous heart. Beatrix, the elder of the two children of Rupert and Helen Potter, was born in 1866 in South Kensington, London. Although Beatrix and her brother, Walter Bertram, grew up in London, the countryside, where they spent long family holidays, made a great impression on her. From 1871, family holidays were spent in Perthshire, Scotland. Beatrix had freedom to explore, so she practised observing the details of the natural world. When Bertram was old enough, he joined his sister on her expeditions. Together they pursued deer in the woods along the tracks they left behind and collected flowers in order to study and draw them. In 1882, the Potters began taking their holidays in the Lake District, in the north of England. Rural life appealed deeply to Potter and years later she made her home there and produced some of her finest work.
As was the custom in families of her social position, Beatrix was educated at home by several governesses. Her talent for drawing and painting was discovered early and encouraged: for her tenth birthday in 1876 she received an illustrated book about birds. Beatrix also wrote imaginatively about her pets. She and Bertram kept a number of much-loved and intensely observed creatures in their schoolroom. In addition to mice, they kept collections of insects and bats as pets, drawing all with great accuracy.
From 1881 to 1897, Potter kept a journal in which she recorded her thoughts regarding society and current affairs. It was written in a type of code she made up herself, which was rather complex and not deciphered until 1958. In her sketchbook, she practised observation by drawing; in her journal, she practised it by writing. Both skills were central to the success of her books for children.
Although Potter had sold some of her artwork for greeting cards and illustrations in the early 1890s, she devoted most of her energy to the study of natural history, especially mycology*. Fungi appealed to Potter’s imagination, both for their life cycle and for their colour. She not only produced beautiful watercolours, but also developed her skills as a scientific illustrator. By 1896, Potter had developed her own theory of how fungi spores reproduced, which was presented to a meeting of a scientific society in 1897 by one of the male mycologists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, since women could not attend these meetings then.