Summer! asked:
Helen Beatrix Potter (Naturalist) and author of peter rabbit series
Helen Beatrix Potter (Naturalist) and author of peter rabbit series
Most known as Beatrix Potter
what did she discover?invent?or study? Any awards awarded to her?
How did her work affect society??
What would the world be like without Beatrix Potter??
Beatrix Potter Fabric
4 responses so far ↓
1 petrel // Jan 24, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I have not heard that she discovered or invented anything.
She would have probably studied early childhood.
She certainly started something with the Peter Rabbit series of books. There were a lot of children’s china products made on the theme of her books.
Google would give you more information.
2 jelliclepat // Jan 26, 2009 at 7:44 am
You know, if you’d used an encyclopedia or even a search engine like Dogpile or Google, you’d have gotten most of that information in just a few minutes, and it would be more accurate than what you might get here.
3 cCc // Jan 27, 2009 at 5:07 pm
“When Potter came of age, her parents appointed her their housekeeper and discouraged any intellectual development, instead requiring her to supervise the household. However, in contrast to her parents’ wishes but in reflection of the period, from the age of 15 until she was past 30, she recorded her everyday life in journals, using her own secret code, a code that was not decrypted until decades after her death.
An uncle attempted to introduce her as a student at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, but she was rejected because she was female. Potter was later one of the first to suggest that lichens were a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae.[2] At the time, the only way to record microscopic images was by painting them. Potter thus made numerous drawings of lichens and fungi. As the result of her observations, she was widely respected throughout England as an expert on fungi. She showed that algae and fungi belong to the same family. She also studied spore germination and life cycles of fungus.
In 1897, her paper on the germination of spores was presented to the Linnean Society by her uncle Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe because women were barred from attending meetings. In 1997, the Society issued a posthumous official apology to Potter for the way she had been treated. The Royal Society refused to publish at least one of her technical papers. Potter’s set of detailed watercolors of fungi, numbering some 270 completed by 1901, is in the Armitt Library, Ambleside.”
4 Barking Lunchbox // Jan 29, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I dunno. I’ll ask her. If she’s been good and stayed away from the big can of lard. Can’t trust these writers of whimsical kiddie crap.
let you know how it goes.
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