![]() ![]() Her early sketches included detailed images of her pets and other animals. Often left to her own devices at home, especially after her brother was sent to boarding school, it was in the room on the third floor that served as her nursery, school room and later, studio, where Potter's imagination and artistic skills began to flourish.īy the age of 14, she had started a journal, written in code, to record her thoughts, ideas and sketches and kept it up until the age of 30. ![]() She found comfort in her many pets (including mice, lizards and rabbits) and drawing. ![]() Educated at home by a governess and cared for by nannies, she had few friends of her own age and lived a life of lonely privilege. Her brother Walter Bertram was six years her junior. It was here, at number two Bolton Gardens, that Beatrix Potter was born in July 1866 and raised in an affluent Victorian household complete with maids, cooks, butlers and nursemaids.Īs the eldest child of the family, Potter's early life was solitary. They left their family roots in the industrial Midlands to live in a large house in the exclusive area of South Kensington, London. Her father Rupert, a qualified barrister, married her mother Helen in 1863. Beatrix Potter was born and raised in London, the eldest child of parents who had both inherited Lancashire cotton fortunes. ![]()
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