Potter (1866-1943) remains one of the most loved and best-selling children's authors in English, so naturally Hanks went looking in the Victoria & Albert Museum archives, where there's a large ...

An expert has urged people to keep an eye out for three 50p coins currently in circulation that could be worth far more than their face value. These pieces could fetch up to £60 when sold to ...

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.

Century-Old Beatrix Potter Story to Be Published for First Time A publisher with Penguin Random House re-discovered the handwritten manuscript for “The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots” in one of Potter ...

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 ...

Beatrix Potter died 73 years ago. Now she has a new book. What to make of it? September 8, 2016 By Adrian Higgins ...

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.

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 ...