I MEADOWS OF MISS POTTER
Helen Beatrix Potter was born in London in South Kensington, 28 July 1866 by a very rich family. He spent his childhood cared for and educated by governesses, and when his brother Bertram was sent to school, the little Beatrix, left alone, surrounded only by his beloved and imaginative pet frogs, salamanders, ferrets, but his favorite, though, are two rabbits , Benjamin and Peter begins to retract as a child.
Potter In summer the whole family moved to the Great Lakes region, already famous at the time as a summer destination, a landscape, one of the most beautiful in Europe, dominated by deep valleys, rivers, streams, waterfalls and lakes of course: there are about 15 bodies of water that gave its name to this region.
E 'where the young Potter developed his unconditional love for nature.
Despite its interests and ambitions, the parents for its failure to continue their studies and to devote time to the interests of intellectual mold. In fact, according to the strict precepts of Victorian women had to deal exclusively with the house. So Beatrix, aged 15 years begins to write a diary, but using its own secret code, which will be decoded only 20 years after his death. The
uncle tries to insert it as a student at the Botanical Gardens at Kew, but his request was rejected because woman. Starts but always in secret, to earn a reputation for expert mycologist (mushroom expert). A collection with 270 watercolors, in which the mushrooms are drawn with extreme detail, this is the Armitt Library in Ambleside. The British Academy of Sciences (Royal Society) refuses to publish his scientific illustrations, as always women.
decided therefore to publish at his own expense "The story of Peter Rabbit" (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), a picture book for children.
One of 250 copies reached the desk of Norman Warne, head of the publisher Frederick Warne & Co., which determines whether it published the story. From June 1902 until the end of the book sold 28,000 copies. In 1903 he published a new novel, "The History of Squirrel Nutkin" (The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin) that gets as much success.
from the proceeds of his books Beatrix Potter manages to reach the longed-for economic independence, the need to rebel against the rigidity of Victorian society. In 1905 he started attending her publisher Norman Warne, but is forced to do so in secret because of the strong opposition from his parents.
break definitively with the family but can not marry Norman, who is ill with anemia and fulminant dies within a few weeks.
At age 47 she married the attorney William Heelis, with whom she moved to a large farm in Sawrey in the Lake District, surrounded by animals: dogs, cats and a hedgehog named "Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" .. After the death of parents Beatrix Potter used her inheritance to buy and preserve land in the region with her husband and moved to Castle Cottage, where he died December 22, 1943.
