Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter was born in South Kensington, as the only daughter of Rupert Potter who worked as a rentier. Beatrix usually intertained herself by taking specimens from the natural museum and painting them or she would sketch the Lake District where the family spent most of their summer holidays. Beatrix never went to school but her parents had her taught at home by a governess and was taught by Sir Walter to read. Beatrix lived at her parents house until she was past her thirty´s and recorded her life in a book in a code so that nobody else could read it. In 1893 she wrote a letter to a friend Noel Moore which contained picture´s and The Tale Of Peter Rabbit and from this Potter decided to privately print her book in 1905 and then published by Frederik Warne. When Beatrix tried to publish her book for the first time it was rejected by the publishing company but in the end she found a publisher that would publish her book who was known by Frederik Warne. Later she got engaged to Norman Warne who was a publisher but then he died about a month later of leukemia. When her husband died she decided to turn back to her books and spent most of her time on the lake district farm. Between 1905 and 1913 Beatrix published a number of children´s book´s using watercolor illustrations.
At the age of 47 Beatrix married a solicitor called William Heelis and then she eventually stopped writing. Beatrix met William when she bought cattle farm and dedicated her last thirty years, she bought a sheep farm out of her fathers inheritance. Potter died in Sawrey in Lancashire on December 22 of 1943. And after her death the journal that she kept from the age of fifteen was found and published in 1964.
