An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus, 85 BC – 43
Beatrix Potter biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Beatrix Potter

Author Name:

Beatrix Potter

Born As:

Helen Beatrix Potter

Other Names:

Born:

28 Jul 1866

Died:

22 Dec 1943




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Writer, botanical artist, mycologist and conservationist                          
Selected Works:

Bibliography:

The Tale of Peter Rabbit - 1902
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - 1903
The Tailor of Gloucester - 1903
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - 1904
The Tale of Two Bad Mice - 1904
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle - 1905
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan - 1905
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher - 1906
The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit - 1906
The Story of Miss Moppet - 1906
The Tale of Tom Kitten - 1907
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - 1908
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding - 1908
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies - 1909
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles - 1909
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse - 1910
Peter Rabbit's Painting Book - 1911
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes - 1911
The Tale of Mr. Tod - 1912
The Tale of Pigling Bland - 1913
Tom Kitten's Painting Book - 1917
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes - 1917
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse - 1918
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes - 1922
Jemima Puddle-Duck's Painting Book - 1925
Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929 - 1928
The Fairy Caravan - 1929
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson - 1930
Sister Anne - 1932
Wag-by-Wall - decorations by J. J. Lankes - 1944
The Tale of the Faithful Dove - illustrated by Marie Angel - 1955, 1970.                          
Mother Helen Potter Leech
Father Rupert William Potter

At age 47, Helen Potter married William Heelis, no children.                          
                          
When Helen Potter came of age, her parents appointed her their housekeeper and discouraged any intellectual development, instead requiring her to supervise the household. From the age of 15 until she was past 30, she recorded her everyday life in journals, using her own secret code which was not decoded until 20 years after her death.

An uncle attempted to introduce her as a student at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, but she was rejected because she was female.

Helen Potter was later one of the first to suggest that lichens were a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae.