When Beatrix Potter was young she spent many happy holidays in Scotland and the Lake District.  It was on these long summer holidays that she developed a love of animals and nature and grew great inspiration for her art. She was very observant of all things in nature and began sketching insects, animals and plants […]

Little is known about Beatrix’s life in her early teens apart from summer holidays spent in Scotland and later The Lake District. As in her childhood she continued to live a solitary life in her attic quarters where her only company was her dolls and her animals and sometimes visits from several governesses. Her main […]

  Beatrix and her family spent 12 wonderful summers in Perthshire, Scotland. It was here her father enjoyed his fishing and his photography.  He invited one or two male friends  to join him, including William Gaskell, together with John Bright and Sir John Everett Millais.  There is no doubt these gentlemen had a lasting influence on […]

    As a child Beatrix’s life in London was lonely and isolated. However during her childhood her parents began taking holidays in Perthshire, Scotland and it was during these wonderful summer holidays that Beatrix and her brother, Bertram, developed a love of Nature. Here they were free to explore the countryside around them, indulging their […]

Beatrix Potter was born on the 28th July 1866. She was one of the world’s best-loved children’s authors, who captured the imagination of both adults and children alike for over 100 years with her wonderful illustrated Tales.   The Lake District in the north of England has the most beautiful scenery. This is one of […]

Helen Beatrix Potter entered this life on the 28th July 1866.   She was born into a period and class which seemed to have little understanding of childhood.   Her parents, Helen and Rupert Potter, were rich having inherited fortunes from the Lancashire Cotton Industry.   However a generation had pass ed and the hard working […]