The Literature Network - POTTER'S HISTORY; BEATRIX POTTER's tales of all-too-human animals have delighted children for a century - and they have now been turned into a blockbuster movie. But who were the real-life creatures and people who inspired her stories?

POTTER'S HISTORY; BEATRIX POTTER's tales of all-too-human animals have delighted children for a century - and they have now been turned into a blockbuster movie. But who were the real-life creatures and people who inspired her stories?

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20061230
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Byline: TESSA CUNNINGHAM

Armed with sketchbook and watercolours, Hollywood star Renee Zellweger will be on cinema screens in the New Year as Britain's best-loved children's author, Beatrix Potter. Miss Potter, co-starring Ewan McGregor as Beatrix's first love - her editor and publisher Norman Warne - reveals the passionate, independent woman behind the multimillion-pound Peter Rabbit industry.

Although Beatrix was happiest in the country, particularly the Lake District, where she spent many happy family holidays as a girl, and later bought a home, she grew up in South ...

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POTTER'S HISTORY; BEATRIX POTTER's tales of all-too-human animals have delighted children for a century - and they have now been turned into a blockbuster movie. But who were the real-life creatures and people who inspired her stories?

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