“At first I found the popularity of Peter Rabbit rather bizarre. His face appears on all manner of things, often on plates for some reason.”
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Heelis, usually known as Beatrix Potter, was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902. Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten, have sold more than 250 million copi…
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culture · English writer and illustrator (1866–1943) · writer · illustrator · painter · children's writer · mycologist · scientific illustrator · botanist · novelist · conservationist · artist · also Beatrix Potter, Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis, Helen Beatrix Potter, (Helen) Beatrix Potter, Potter
Born 28 July 1866 · Died 22 December 1943 · Q214565
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2026· 4 entries
“s Philip Parker said the stamps depicted some”
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“s books in the early 1900s. A first edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which Potter printed privately, is due to be auctioned later and is expected to fetch £35,000. In addition to the anniversary stamps, a Peter Rabbit postmark will be stamped on mail posted in what was Potter”
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Public attention spiked: 3,799 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 1,255, with 1 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
The exhibition travelled to the Morgan Library & Museum in New York
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2023· 1 entry
It was decided that the gallery should not reopen because the building did not meet modern conservation standards
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2022· 1 entry
An exhibition entitled Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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2019· 1 entry
Published “The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 3,992 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “The Pfam protein families database in 2019” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 4,175 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations by Emily Zach was published after San Francisco publisher Chronicle Books decided to mark the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth by showing that
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2016· 2 entries
Peter Rabbit was depicted on the reverse of a British fifty pence coin, and Peter along with other Potter characters featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail
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Published “Genomic Classification and Prognosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 3,840 times.
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2015· 2 entries
A manuscript for an unpublished book was discovered by Jo Hanks, a publisher at Penguin Random House Children's Books, in the Victoria and Albert Museum archive
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Published “The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 5,312 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls” in Nature — cited 7,937 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biographical film of Potter's life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne
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2002· 1 entry
Published “NCEP–DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2)” in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society — cited 4,528 times.
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1997· 1 entry
The Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research
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1996· 1 entry
Published “Impulse response analysis in nonlinear multivariate models” in Journal of Econometrics — cited 4,024 times.
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1993· 1 entry
Weston Woods Studios made an almost hour non-story film called Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman with narration by Lynn Redgrave
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1992· 1 entry
Potter's children's book The Tale of Benjamin Bunny was featured in the film Lorenzo's Oil
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1982· 1 entry
The BBC produced The Tale of Beatrix Potter
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1971· 1 entry
A ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills, set to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Ashton, and performed in character costume by members of the Royal Ballet
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1967· 1 entry
The mycologist Walter Findlay included many of Potter's beautifully accurate fungus drawings in his Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungus drawings published in a book
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1958· 1 entry
Does not provide an intimate record of her personal life, but it is an invaluable source for understanding a vibrant part of British society in the late 19th century
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1943· 2 entries
Died 1943-12-22.
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“Se fiz algo, mesmo que pouco, para ajudar crianças pequenas a gostar de prazeres simples e honestos, já fiz minha parte de bem.”
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1942· 1 entry
Became President-elect of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association, the first time a woman had been elected, but died before taking office
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1930· 1 entry
The Heelises became partners with the National Trust in buying and managing the fell farms included in the large Monk Coniston Estate
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1923· 1 entry
Bought a large sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, formerly a deer park, restoring its land with thousands of Herdwick sheep
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1922· 2 entries
The movie was written by Abigail Wilson, directed by David Kerr and starred Dawn French as Beatrix Potter, Rob Brydon as William Heelis and Jessica Hynes as Sofie Dahl
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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, a collection of traditional English nursery rhymes, was published
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1914· 1 entry
And with the outbreak of World War I, Potter persuaded her mother to move to the Lake District, renting her a property in Sawrey
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1913· 2 entries
Studied at governance (1905–1913).
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At the age of 47, she married William Heelis (1871–1945), a respected local solicitor with an office in Hawkshead
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1905· 2 entries
Potter and Norman Warne became unofficially engaged
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Using the proceeds from her books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District
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1903· 3 entries
Potter created the first Peter Rabbit soft toy and registered him at the Patent Office in London, making Peter the oldest licensed fictional character
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Peter hopped outside his pages to become a patented soft toy, which gave him the distinction of being not only Mr
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Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy, making him the oldest licensed character
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1900· 1 entry
Potter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it – it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman's 1899 bestseller The Story of Little Black Sambo
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1893· 1 entry
The same printer bought several more drawings for Weatherly's Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annu
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1890· 1 entry
The firm of Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought several of the drawings of her rabbit Benjamin Bunny to illustrate verses by Frederic Weatherly titled A Happy Pair
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1882· 1 entry
When Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Lake Windermere
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1881· 1 entry
Her journal ends in 1897 when her artistic and intellectual energies were absorbed in scientific study and in efforts to publish her drawings
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-07-28.
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