5/26/2023 0 Comments Beatrix potter![]() In September 1893, Annie Moore wrote Beatrix with the news that her son Noel was ill. Beatrix was devastated, though she did visit the couple at their home in Wandsworth. After only two years as governess, Annie Carter announced that she was leaving the Potter household to marry Edwin Moore. Beatrix began to see that there was a wide world beyond her own, and she wanted to find a way to take advantage of it. Though Annie wasn’t much older than her charge, she had traveled as a student and lived in Germany. But Beatrix and her new governess, Annie Carter, became friends-the first real friend that Beatrix had ever had. ![]() She felt she was old enough to look a er herself and didn’t need to be in anyone’s care. When she was 17, the Potters hired a governess to look a er their daughter. A dedicated and eager student, she received grades of “excellent” in all her courses. She also copied the drawings of plants, insects and animals that she found in her father’s books, working extremely hard to get the exact details right, whether it was a delicate mushroom, a shiny beetle, or a furry rabbit.Īs was the custom in families of her class, Beatrix did not attend school, however she did take art classes at the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum). To fill her time, she continued drawing and painting the animals in her menagerie. When he was old enough, Bertram was sent away to boarding school, and Beatrix was on her own in the oppressive Potter house. They both loved drawing and painting, and the subjects of their creations were usually their many pets, which included frogs, lizard, mice, snails, hedgehogs, rabbits and a bat. Beatrix and Bertram spent much time in their nursery at the top of the house. They felt that their children should be seen and not heard, and perhaps not even seen very o en. Like many Victorian parents, Helen and Rupert Potter did not alter their lives because they had children. The Potters lived a very comfortable and privileged life in the fashionable neighborhoods of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Her younger brother Bertram was born six years later. Helen Beatrix Potter, known as Beatrix, was born on July 28, 1866, the first child of Helen and Rupert Potter. While the actions of the Linnean Society quite possibly denied the world an outstanding naturalist and researcher specializing in the study of fungi, it created an author/illustrator whose books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated in 35 languages. Beatrix had sold a series of her paintings to a greeting card company in the early 1890s, so she knew that there was the possibility of earning her own money by selling her illustrations. ![]() So she decided to focus her artistic skills on drawing and painting animals, something she had done since she was a young girl. She was determined to find something useful and meaningful to do with her talents and to gain personal and financial independence from her family. So Beatrix Potter packed up her work on fungi into portfolios and put it away.īeatrix Potter was undeterred by this setback. Not surprisingly, a week after the presentation of the paper, the Minutes for the Council Meeting recorded that a proposal on the behalf of Miss Helen Potter to withdraw her paper was sanctioned. Despite her thoroughness and exhaustive research, Potter knew that she and her work would not be taken seriously. So a man presented Potter’s research paper. But the Linnean Society didn’t allow women members, nor did they permit women to present papers. The paper was accompanied by her detailed and precise drawings. Beatrix Potter had submitted a research paper entitled, “On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae.” It was based on her examination of several types of mushrooms and the discovery of a new method of germinating spores. Its mandate included maintaining a research library and publishing scholarly papers. The Linnean Society was the premier organization for the promotion of natural history. Early on the morning of April 1, 1897, the Linnean Society in London, England, gathered to hear a research paper by Miss Helen Beatrix Potter.
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