Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943). British writer of children’s books. Her stories feature animal characters such as Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle the hedgehog. Her earliest publications, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1900) and The Tailor of Gloucester (1902), were written as letters to a sick child and illustrated by Potter with water colour paintings based on sketches from nature. When she died, she left her extensive farmlands to the National Trust.
