Peter Rabbit introduces Miss Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potterintroduced by Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's BioBorn in London in 1866; in 1902 she published The Tale of Peter Rabbit; in 1903she made a Peter Rabbit doll and she patented it turning her into abusinesswoman; until 1930 she kept on writing tales; married in 1913; 1943President of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association; 1943 she died. She kept adiary written in a secret code that eventually was cracked in 1966: The Journal ofBeatrix Potter.

Miss Potter as a painterSince her childhood, Beatrix started to illustrate books, a self trainedwatercolourist.She preferred drawing stories like Cinderella, Sleeping beauty, Alì Baba and theforty thieves and Little Red Riding Hood where she focused most on thewatercolours of mice, kittens and guinea pigs.Beatrix and her brother began to print Christmas cards of their own design andalso cards for special occasions to earn money.In 1890 Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought lots of her drawings of Benjamin Bunnyto illustrate “A happy pear” by Frederic Weatherly. They bought other works fromher and satisfied for her results, she decided to make a collection of her drawingsto sell.She became very famous and appreciated by children.

Miss Potter as a writerIn her thirties, Miss Potter self-published thechildren’s book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”.After the success that came from it, shebecame a full-time writer and illustrator,because she used to draw all the illustrationsof her books herself.In all her life she has written about 30 ofthem and the most famous are the 24children’s tales.Being a student of the classic fairy tales ofwestern Europe all her works have beeninfluenced by her studies as well as by folktales, mythology, Shakespeare, and a lot ofother authors.In her teenage years she also showed a talentin literary criticism.

Miss Potter as a writerPiper Piper was the second rabbit that Potter acquired in the 1890s, and amuch-loved member of the menagerie that kept her amused in her ratherlonely childhood.Fat, 'good at tricks' and 'very naughty\": the perfect model for a story about amischievous and greedy little rabbit like Peter and his family, consisting of hismother and three brothers: Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail. In 2002, to mark the centenary commercial publication of “The Tale of PeterRabbit”, Warne has designed another new edition redressing Peter accordingto Beatrix's original intentions with six 'extra' illustrations.This book has made many sales and is still read now.In adddition to this the British mint issued a series of 50p coins in 2016.

Miss Potter as a sheep breeder BBeeaattrriixx PPootttteerr rreeaalllyy lloovveess hheerr sshheeeepp,, iitt’’ss ssaaiidd sshhee ssppeenntt lots of time on the hill looking for a sheep. She bred with the help of the sheperd Tom Storwhiteey a special race called Herdwick. This one is different from the others because of their colour which changes from being black at birth to becoming grey and then white.They are also really important for the UK’shills because they clean the soil from theweeds.When Beatrix died she entrusted her plotsof land to the National Trust which fromthen onward breed Herdwick sheep.

Miss Potter as a naturalistFrom childhood, Beatrix was an avid student of Nature. She drew and painted all theanimals she could find while holidaying with her family, and loved paintingmushrooms. Her two strongest interests had always been in the natural world and inthe portraying what she saw there.With money earned from her books she eventually bought some land and became afarmer in England's Lake Country.Early studies of a dead thrush, a mushroom, a mud turtle,a weasel. a page from her sketchbook at 9

Miss Potter as a mycologist Beatrix studied mushrooms through a microscope, painted 350 pictures offungi, spores and mosses which, despite being so beautifully and scientificallyaccurate, didn't let Miss Potter join the Linnean Society smothered by thepatriarchal Victorian view of the time.Unfortunately “On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae” that shesubmitted got lost.

Miss Potter on the screenThe film ‘Miss Potter’, nominated for the OscarAward in 2006, is an Anglo-American familydrama directed by Chris Noonan.It is a biographical movie with animatedsequences from the writer’s creations, aboutthe wellknown children’s author and illustratorBeatrix Potter.Beatrix Potter is a thirty-two-year old from agood family, determined and nonconformist,fascinated by the country life. The literaryproject with Norman Warne, with whom shewill weave an intense love story, will becomevery important.

Miss Potter's Peter Rabbit on the big screenMy first story was Thanks for sharing your time with me.published in 1902. Sincethen, lots of children See you at the cinema!have read my Or why don't we meet at The World of Beatrix Potter™adventures, which have Attraction, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, The Lakebeen turned into ballets, District?musicals, adaptations forthe theatre, and ananimated film hasrecently been released.

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