Yet they are never “cute.” That fox would bite you and that goose would give you what for if you crossed her. You can almost see the rabbit wrinkling its nose or the squirrel twitching its tail. Even when dressed as country squires or middle-class Victorian matrons, the proportions, the gestures, the furriness of the fur, even the glint or dullness of the eyes leave no doubt that the character could run, skip, or hop right out of the book. Her animals – whether rabbits, geese, toads or foxes – are real. Small is Beautiful: Potter’s Attention to Detailīut what about those stories? Why were they so popular and why have they endured? First, they are beautiful the talent and expertise are beyond question. At her death in 1943, she left most of her land to the National Trust to preserve much of what has become the Lake District National Park. Her estate grew over the years, and she farmed it herself becoming a respected member of the community. From the royalties, she bought a farm in the Lake District, an area which she had always loved and which became a passion with her. She was persuaded to put these in book form and that is how the Peter Rabbit stories came about. To the children of friends and former governesses, she wrote illustrated letters of the animals she saw in her travels throughout England. From this, she was commissioned to illustrate volumes of nature poetry. In the early 1890s, she published Christmas cards featuring her illustrations. When she painted, she knew what she was portraying. She also developed her own theory of their reproduction which challenged the then-current view in the scientific world (and which has since been found to be more accurate than the prevalent theories). From her study, she produced superb and technically accurate drawings and paintings of microscopic fungi still used in textbooks. She became not only an accomplished artist but also an expert in natural history, especially in mycology (the study of fungi mushrooms and such). The Potters spent their summers in the country with relatives or at rented houses and this broadened Beatrix’s knowledge and love of nature, both technically and artistically. She was fascinated by them and studied, sketched, and painted them endlessly. She was sheltered and shy, but kept (sometimes without the knowledge of her parents) a menagerie of animals that any Heights boy would envy – mice, rabbits, hedgehogs, and bats (among other animals), as well as a large collection of butterflies, insects, flora and fauna. Beatrix Potter’s Signature Beatrix’s Backgroundīorn into an upper class family in West Brompton, England, a suburb of London, in 1866, Beatrix Potter showed an early promise for drawing and painting, aided by a love of nature.
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