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An expert has urged people to keep an eye out for three 50p coins currently in circulation that could be worth far more than ...
An "incredibly rare" coin has been listed for sale for thousands of times over its original price. A Bolton-based seller has put up a Beatrix Potter 50p, depicting one of the author's most famous ...
Work is under way to restore a Gothic Victorian castle with links to Beatrix Potter. Wray Castle in Ambleside, Cumbria, was ...
Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century.
A rare 50p coin is being sold on eBay for more than £20,000. The item is listed on the online marketplace for over 40,000 ...
Beatrix Potter died 73 years ago. Now she has a new book. What to make of it? September 8, 2016 By Adrian Higgins ...
Beatrix Potter was already 47 years old when, in 1913, she at last won her freedom from her family by marrying William Heelis, the solicitor who had assisted her with the purchase of her portfolio ...
Helen Beatrix Potter, to give her full name, was born in 1866, at the high noon of Victorian Britain. Her father was a lawyer. Her mother’s family had made a fortune in the cotton trade.
Beatrix Potter grew up in an upper class family in reserved, Victorian England. They lived in London but summered in the country, in Scotland or the Lake District.
Beatrix Potter’s original sketch for ‘The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots’. Frederick Warne & Co/V&A Museum "The tale really is the best of Beatrix Potter," Hanks said in a press release on Tuesday.
A long-lost Beatrix Potter book, The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, is set to be released this fall, 150 years after the beloved author's birth. The tale about a sharply dressed feline has "all the ...