Beatrix Potter grew up in an upper class family in reserved, Victorian England. They lived in London but summered in the country, in Scotland or the Lake District.

The correspondence is published in the 1989 book, "Beatrix Potter's Letters," by Judy Taylor. What glues Potter's tales together is her art. Anthropomorphic but also morphologically rendered, ...

100 Years Later, Beatrix Potter's Tale Of A Fanciful Feline To Be Published : The Two-Way The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots is set for release in September. It features a favorite Potter character ...

Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century.

Beatrix Potter was already 47 years old when, in 1913, she at last won her freedom from her family by marrying William Heelis, the solicitor who had assisted her with the purchase of her ...

Beatrix Potter biographer Judy Taylor knows her subject well. But in a recent telephone interview from her home on London’s Primrose Hill Road, Taylor spoke of a relationship with the author of ...

Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter is shown at her Hill Top farm in England in 1913. Beatrix Potter gave her readers glimpses of her gardens in the charming illustrations that accompanied her ...

Children everywhere, and your parents, rejoice: A well-behaved black cat who leads "rather a double life" will star in the latest Beatrix Potter story — previously unknown — in a book to be ...

A rare 50p coin is being sold on eBay for over £60,000. The item is listed on the online marketplace for over 120,000 times ...

Artist Quentin Blake, known for his Roald Dahl illustrations, has done the drawings for ‘The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots,’ about a black cat with a double life. Artist Quentin Blake, known for his ...