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A Victorian Childhood | Beatrix Potter's Holidays | Beatrix Potter's Pets | A Secret Diary
Beatrix Potter was born on July 28th, 1866 at No 2, Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London. A typical upper middle class Victorian family, the Potters lived in a large house with several servants. Beatrix was cared for by a nurse, and she spent long hours alone, only seeing her parents at bedtime and on special occasions.
Her brother Bertram was born when she was six, and the children were educated
at home by a governess until Bertram was old enough to attend school. Beatrix
stayed at home under the care of a sequence of governesses who encouraged
her to read and write and taught her music and art. (Photograph: Beatrix,
aged 9, courtesy of Warne Archive.)
(Photograph: Potter family portrait taken in 1881, courtest of Beatrix
Potter Society.) |
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