Beatrix Potter strategically purchased Lake District lands using book profits and inheritance. She ensured farms remained ...

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature brings together an array of artwork, books, manuscripts, artifacts, and letters from institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust, and the ...

Spread from The Art of Beatrix Potter (2016), published by Chronicle Books (all illustrations © Frederick Warne & Co.) I grew up on a steady diet of Beatrix Potter ...

Beatrix Potter was a frequent guest at the Suffolk mansion. National Trust Images - Rupert Truman A newly-discovered drawing of the north roof of Melford Hall by Beatrix Potter. National Trust - ...

“I do not draw cats well,” Beatrix Potter complained to her publisher in 1916, at the age of fifty, after having been a celebrated author for more than a dozen years, with almost twenty published ...

Four new illustrations by beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter have been discovered by staff a National Trust property in the UK. The line drawings were found hidden inside books at Melford Hall ...

Born Helen Beatrix Potter on July 28, 1866, the author spent her formative years under the care of a governess and largely left to her own imagination on the third floor of her wealthy family’s home ...

Mrs. Rabbit pours tea for Peter Rabbit while her other children watch. (1902–1907) (© Victoria and Albert Museum; image courtesy Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 to a ...

A rare collection of Beatrix Potter family heirlooms is set to go under the hammer this month.

Children's author Beatrix Potter is the subject of a new movie starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Miss Potter is mostly a love story between the author and her publisher, based on events that ...