How Did The Beatrix Potter Influence The World

Daydreaming about talking animals with human like characteristics may sound insane to many people but not to an author who had influence the world in many ways with her imagination. Beatrix Potter’s imagination and ideas came from when she was in the nursery with her brother. With not much to do, they would play with their pet rabbit or capture mices and perform small observation with it (Beatrix, 1998). They spent most of their time in the nursery due to the fact that their parents were busy. Throughout, Potter’s writing career, she became well-known for her children’s books and tales about animals with human like characteristics (Beatrix, 1998). Her books were read by many children worldwide (Beatrix, 1998). One of her famous works is The …show more content…
288). With her parents absence, she spent most of her childhood in the nursery with her brother named Bertram (Beatrix, 1998). Her most influence in education and ideas were from the highland nurse who took care of her brother and her in the nursery. They would tell her stories about witches, fairies, and other creatures (Beatrix, 1998). As a child, Potter was different compare to other girls throughout her childhood. She had a broad imagination and was good at remembering things which influenced her to become a master teller of tales (Beatrix, 1998). Her traits of creativity did not pleased her mother at all (Beatrix, 1998). In fact, Potter was a disappointment to her mother (Beatrix, 1998). Although, she was a disappointment, she was very rebellious with her passion in the challenges from art (Beatrix, 1998). She took art lessons as a young teenage but stopped since she believed that she was copying the style of many artist (Beatrix, 1998). Since she did take her art passion seriously, in 1891, her illustrations were used in books of rhymes and greeting cards (Beatrix, 1998). One important artwork she illustrated at the age of 24 was about elicit parental (Howard, 1996, pp. 288). Later on, her brother sent some of her art works to Hildesheimer & Faulkner who were famous author at the time. This started the beginning of the three stages of her writing career. …show more content…
293). She still owned HillTop farmland where she later on met William Heelis who is a local lawyer of the Lake District Property (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). During her marriage, she developed another tale called The Tale of Pigling Bland in 1930 (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). This tale started the new stage and was the last tale she had developed in her life (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). It portrayed the theme of escaping from bondage (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). Many characters in her tales portrayed many activities of humanized animals (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). The animals were example of untrained small children. Afterwards, Potter focused more into farming rather than writing. She became very successful in farming and taking care of the animals. The theme of taking care of the countryside was also portrayed in her tales (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). Not many books was published after she became very conservative of the farmland (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). Throughout the years, Potter owned about 17 farms and about 4000 acres of land (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). Later on at the age of 77 she died from old age, leaving behind her farm that has four acres of land to England National Trust (Howard, 1996, pp. 293). Her legacy of writing enduring tales and drawings of a bunny in a little blue jacket will always be remembered from every child’s imagination world. Even though she later on ended her