Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866 into a wealthy family and was educated at home by governesses. She spent much time drawing the pets she kept, including rabbits, mice and a hedgehog, and studying plants and fungi; she made careful scientific drawings of fungi and wrote a paper on how their spores grow. Family holidays in Scotland and the Lake District gave her a lasting love of the countryside. The Tale of Peter Rabbit began as a picture letter to a sick child, the son of her former governess. She first printed it privately, and Frederick Warne published it in 1902. It was followed by more than twenty small books, including The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. With her earnings she bought Hill Top Farm in the Lake District, married the solicitor William Heelis in 1913, raised Herdwick sheep, and left much of her land to the National Trust. She died in 1943.

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Faith: Raised in an English Unitarian family. Source: Wikipedia