The two Potter children also kept a variety of pets in the schoolroom including Peter the rabbit, a canary, a budgerigar and a frog called Punch. The family were passionate about the natural world, taking regular holidays in Scotland and the Lake District where the whole family would go out armed with sketchbooks to capture the world around them. Two of her childhood favourites were Alice in Wonderland (she poured over John Tenniel’s illustrations and even tried her hand at her own) and the nonsense verse of Edward Lear. Beatrix loved to read in particular fairy tales. He made sure the young Beatrix and her younger brother Bertram received private painting tuition alongside their other lessons. Her father was a barrister by profession but was also an excellent amateur photographer. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me long the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.īorn in 1866, Beatrix Potter spent most of her early life in London.
The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk.
Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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