Born in 1866 into a wealthy family in Kensington, a still semi-rural district of London, Beatrix Potter had a rare opportunity: to have received, in her words, a “neglected” education. In other words, by being left to her own devices, she was able to translate her love of nature very early on through drawing and watercolors. With her brother Bertram, the young Englishwoman spent hours drawing turtles, salamanders and other mice making up the small domestic menagerie. Passionate about mushrooms which she studies under a microscope, she paints plates which are still used by mycologists today. In other times, she would have become a naturalist but encountered, at the time, the misogyny of Victorian learned societies.
Her career as an author began somewhat by chance. Inspired by personal letters that she illustrated, she drew in black ink her first book, Peter Rabbit, which she published herself. The publisher Frederick Warne then suggested that he print a color version. The year is 1902. Success is immediate.
From then on, she will release one to two books per year. Tom Chaton, Jeannot Lapin, Sophie Canétang… in total, 23 humanized animal adventures will be published, which will tour the world.
Now earning a living, she acquired property in the Lake District in the northwest of England.
-The first in a long series: upon her death in 1943, she bequeathed all of her land, more than 1,600 hectares, to the National Trust, an association (…)
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