Peter Rabbit, the cute and wily bunny who wears a bright blue jacket, is the best-selling creation of English author Beatrix Potter. Originally published in 1902, the Tale of Peter Rabbit – the first ...

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature brings together an array of artwork, books, manuscripts, artifacts, and letters from institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust, and the ...

Four new illustrations by beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter have been discovered by staff a National Trust property in the UK. The line drawings were found hidden inside books at Melford Hall ...

For the publication of A Celebration of Beatrix Potter (Warne, Nov. 1), Penguin Random House senior art director Giuseppe Castellano commissioned text and illustrations from more than 30 contemporary ...

Mrs Rabbit pouring out the tea for Peter while her children look on, 1902-1907. Linder Bequest. Museum no.BP.468. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London/courtesy of ...

Three Christmas cards designed by a young Beatrix Potter are to go on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The cards were made when Potter was 23 to provide friends and family with "five minutes ...

Mr Tod was a Fox and not a very popular one. No one liked him. Especially the rabbits. They didn’t like his strong foxy smell or his habit of wandering around the countryside, one day living in a ...

Beatrix Potter has been accused of 'cultural appropriation' by an academic who claimed the author's most beloved tales copied folk stories told by African slaves. Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, an expert in ...

Daffodils along Lake Ullswater inspired the poet William Wordsworth to write “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Brian Sherwen Brian Sherwen When I was a little girl, my grandparents gifted me with a ...

CUMBRIA, England -- The menu was a disappointment. There was no rabbit pie. And, sadly, the blackboard specials didn't include Wellington-boot-stuffed trout or roasted grasshopper with lady-bird sauce ...