Beatrix Potter

1. Beatrix Potter

2. Beatrix Potter was born on 28 July
1866 in South Kensington, London.

3. She had many animals
which she kept as pets,
studying them and making
drawings.

4. Her parents took her
on three
month summer
holidays to Wray
Castle near Ambleside
in the Lake District.
For the 21 years on
and off, the Potters
holidayed in the Lake
District

5. Beatrix
Potter loved
animals and
she loved to
draw.

6. Back in London
Beatrix began
making greetings
cards of her
pictures, and started
a book

7. Eventually Frederick Warne published 'The
Tale of Peter Rabbit' in 1902

8. Beatrix began to buy
property
When she died on 22
December 1943,
Beatrix Potter left
fourteen farms and
4000 acres of land to
the National Trust

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