Taylor, Judy, ed. (1993). 'So I Shall Tell You a Story...': Encounters with Beatrix Potter. F.Warne & Co. ISBN 978-0-7232-4025-9. The Tailor of Gloucester - a tailor sends his cat Simpkin away to buy a twist of silk, to complete the mayor’s Christmas wedding waistcoat.While the cat’s away, the tailor frees the mice he has hidden under teacups. When the tailor falls ill, the mice complete the waistcoat out of gratitude for their freedom. Potter died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in songs, films, ballet, and animations, and her life is depicted in two films and a television series. Her works provide significant scope for a collector: from privately printed volumes to commercial trade editions, from inscribed copies to translations, from greetings cards to merchandise, from regular issues to deluxe bindings and, also, examples of her original artwork. V&A · Beatrix Potter's first sketchbook, aged 8". Victoria and Albert Museum . Retrieved 11 May 2022.

a b Walker, Tim (22 July 2014). "Mandrake-The Duchess of Cambridge is related to Potter, who once gave the Middleton family her own original hand-painted illustrations". The Daily Telegraph. London. p.8. Archived from the original on 16 June 2019 . Retrieved 16 August 2014. Jane Morse, ed., (1982) Beatrix Potter's Americans: Selected Letters; Susan Denyer, (2000) At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit. In 2015 a manuscript for an unpublished book was discovered by Jo Hanks, a publisher at Penguin Random House Children's Books, in the Victoria and Albert Museum archive. The book The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, with illustrations by Quentin Blake, [92] was published 1 September 2016, to mark the 150th anniversary of Potter's birth. [93] Also in 2016, Peter Rabbit was depicted on the reverse of a British fifty pence coin, and Peter along with other Potter characters featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail. [91] [94]

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Potter's country life, her farming and role as a landscape perservationist are discussed in the work of Matthew Kelly, The Women Who Saved the English Countryside (2022). [99] See also Susan Denyer and authors in the publications of The National Trust, such as Beatrix Potter at Home in the Lake District (2004). [100]

Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes - Beatrix Potter loved nursery rhymes, and planned a collection of them as the follow-up to The Tale of Peter Rabbit. However, after her editor and fiancé Norman Warne died in 1905, the project was set aside. When her publisher faced financial ruin in 1917, the book was resurrected, and remains a classic for the very young. Brian G. Gardiner, "Beatrix Potter's fossils and her interest in Geology," The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 16/1 (January 2000), pp. 31–47 Bruce L. Thompson, 'Beatrix Potter's Gift to the Public'. Country Life (3 March 1944), 370–371; Taylor, et al., The Artist Storyteller, Ch. 6; Lear 2007, pp. 441–447. Potter, Beatrix (1987). Leslie Linder (ed.). A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter. F. Warne & Co. ISBN 978-0-7232-3562-0.Potter, Beatrix. (rev. 1989). The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881–1897, transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder. F. Warne & Co. ISBN 978-0-7232-3625-2 Jay, Eileen, Mary Noble & Anne Stevenson Hobbs (1992). A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter's Drawings from the Armitt Collection. F. Warne & Co. ISBN 978-0-7232-3990-1. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle - one of the most popular of Beatrix Potter’s creations, Mrs Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog laundress for other animals. She is discovered washing the handkerchiefs of a farmgirl called Lucie. But is she real, or just a dream? Lingholm country house (where Potter spent her summer holidays from 1885 to 1907) and a statue of Peter Rabbit on the house grounds. Lingholm kitchen garden inspired Mr. McGregor's garden in the Peter Rabbit stories. With its connection to Potter, Lingholm was listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England in 2013. [28] [29]