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Beatrix Potter, Author of Peter Rabbit > 
Beatrix Potter was the author and illustrator of a popular series of children's books that includes The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), The Tailor of Gloucester (1903) and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909). Illustrated with watercolors, her simple and unsentimental stories for children involved the adventures of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, the hedgehog Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and others. Between the 1890s and 1920s she published more than a dozen books that sold millions of copies. She bought farmland and cared for her aging parents until she was in her late 40s, then she married and devoted her time to breeding sheep and fighting for land conservation.
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