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Fun facts about Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit.(The Dallas Morning News)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020129
Author:Johnson, Jean Nash
Fun facts about Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit:
``The Tale of Peter Rabbit'' was first published in England in 1902 and sold for 1 shilling. Today that equals 7 cents in U.S. currency.
Potter died in 1943 at 77. She left 4,000 acres of land and 15 farms to the National Trust, an organization that protects buildings of beauty and historical importance.
Potter's drawings were scenes of real places and things in her life. The bureau drawer in ``Tom Kitten'' still stands in her English farmhouse at Hill Top in the village of Sawrey. The farm and surrounding countryside ...
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