Things were going well for Beatrix Potter when, at age 39, she became engaged — against her family's wishes — her publisher Norman Warne of Frederick Warne and Co. (acquired in 1983 by Penguin).

Presented in a playful and colorful family-friendly installation ... "From storyteller to natural scientist and conservationist, Beatrix Potter lived a truly remarkable and multifaceted life ...

741. ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London / courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. Beatrix Potter was born in July 1866 into a wealthy English family. She delighted in her family’s summer ...

Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics ... A “schoolroom menagerie,” reimagined from the Potter family’s London home, reflects how Potter’s interest in scientific observation developed ...

The Frist Art Museum presents Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature ... Presented in a playful and colorful family-friendly installation, Drawn to Nature features rarely seen objects, including personal ...

(1902–1907) (© Victoria and Albert Museum; image courtesy Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 to a well-off family in London, where the author lived for most of her ...

She tended vast herds of sheep and imagined that her family’s mercantile bloodline ... and the books of Beatrix Potter may well extend that discourse to children. But they are more than that.

So, was it the Potter family’s connections with the cotton ... delivered in 2003 at the Beatrix Potter Society’s annual general meeting. I found the title of Hollindale’s lecture on the ...

Beatrix Potter around 1900 outside her home ... As the rejections flowed in, she unloaded her frustrations in a letter to a family friend, including a sketch depicting herself, little book ...

Her family was creative—her lawyer father ... these books were a formative experience for a lot of us.” “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature,” opens at the Morgan Library & Museum on Friday ...