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2008.07.28--比阿特丽克斯·波特诞辰142周年
Beatrix Potter（比阿特丽克斯·波特，1866.07.28 - 1943），生于维多利亚时代的一个英国贵族家庭，从小受到良好地绘画教育，喜爱将身边的小动物拟人化，用绘画来表达自己对周围世界的观察和想象。英格兰湖区是她灵感特殊的来源，她对大自然的热爱使她创作出著名的'小书'系列。
波特非常喜爱孩子，并富有童心。她常常用自编自绘的童话给朋友的孩子写信。1893年，在波特写给男孩儿诺尔·莫尔的信中，编绘了一个调皮的小兔子比得的故事，该故事在1902年经由朋友推荐，波特重新整理上色，由英国费德里克·沃恩出版社正式出版，成为《比得兔》系列的第一本书。该书出版后，深受读者喜爱，1902年8月一版8000册后，12月随即再版20，000册，比得兔一举成为孩子们心目中的童话明星，一个世纪以来，该书畅销不衰，构筑了世界童书史上的世纪经典。
Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 - 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who was best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses, and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District developed a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all which she closely observed and painted. As a young woman her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and became secretly engaged to her publisher Norman Warne causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding could take place.
Potter eventually published 23 children's books, and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time. In her forties she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943, and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films and in animation.
波特非常喜爱孩子，并富有童心。她常常用自编自绘的童话给朋友的孩子写信。1893年，在波特写给男孩儿诺尔·莫尔的信中，编绘了一个调皮的小兔子比得的故事，该故事在1902年经由朋友推荐，波特重新整理上色，由英国费德里克·沃恩出版社正式出版，成为《比得兔》系列的第一本书。该书出版后，深受读者喜爱，1902年8月一版8000册后，12月随即再版20，000册，比得兔一举成为孩子们心目中的童话明星，一个世纪以来，该书畅销不衰，构筑了世界童书史上的世纪经典。
Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 - 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who was best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses, and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District developed a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all which she closely observed and painted. As a young woman her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and became secretly engaged to her publisher Norman Warne causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding could take place.
Potter eventually published 23 children's books, and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time. In her forties she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943, and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films and in animation.
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