Beatrix Potter Biography

  • Her Birth

    Her Birth

  • She enrolled at the National Art Training School in London

    She enrolled at the National Art Training School in London

  • she sold some of her pictur

    to Hildesheimer and Faulkner, a London publisher.
  • Potter offered some illustrations to a London card publisher

    thinking they could be used on Christmas cards
  • Beatrix began to keep a diary

    Beatrix began to keep a diary

  • She wrote a paper on the subject which was presented to the Linnean Society

  • Her journal ends

    Her journal ends

  • she expanded one of the stories

    and self-published it as The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    was self-published
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    was published the first commercial edition
  • she patented a Peter Rabbit doll and actively involved herself in the development of additional products

    including a board game, wallpaper, painting books, and toys.
  • The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

    The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

  • The Tailor of Gloucester

    The Tailor of Gloucester

  • The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

    The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

  • She bought Hill Top Farm,

    She bought Hill Top Farm,

    She bought a large sheep farm in the Tcalled Troutbeck Park Farm, formerly a deer park, restoring its land with thousands of Herdwick sheep.
  • Engagement

    with Norman Warne
  • The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

    The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

  • Period: to

    She published steadily

  • The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

    The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

  • Marrige

    Marrige

    She married William Heelis
  • Father's Death

    Father's Death

    Rupert Potter died with the outbreak of World War I
  • The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

    The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

    was published
  • Her Death

    Her Death

    from pneumonia and heart disease
  • Wag by Wall

    Wag by Wall

    was published posthumously by The Horn Book Magazine