Beatrix used a paint box inscribed with her mother’s name, and she signed some of her drawings H.B.P. She shares her first name with her mother, Helen Leech Potter, who was also interested in drawing and painting-common pastimes for upper-middle-class Victorian women. Beatrix’s full name is Helen Beatrix Potter. However, her paper On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae was dismissed by London’s Linnean Society-which had a few assumptions about women and their research. Potter was an accomplished naturalist and botanical illustrator. Here are ten things from the exhibition and beyond that you might not know about the beloved children’s author: The exhibition gives wonderful insight into Potter’s early life and career, along with her love of nature and preservation. Those feelings returned after I saw Beatrix Potter: Beloved Children’s Author and Naturalist, on display through February 7 at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library. Photo by Richerman (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons Picturesque Hill Top Farm was purchased by Beatrix Potter in 1905 with proceeds from the sale of her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Like many children, I was fascinated with Beatrix Potter, the creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. I remember wanting to visit Hill Top Farm, Potter’s home, after finding a photo of children reading by the fireplace in a National Geographic my parents had.
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