- Her first name was really Helen
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit was inspired by a letter
- Peter was based on a real rabbit
- Potter's house was basically a menagerie.
- Peter Rabbit did not start out as a success.
- She understood merchandising
- She was a naturalist in a time that women usually weren't
- She sometimes wrote in a secret code
- She disappointed her Mom
- She wrote much more than you (probably)
- She didn't want one of her books published in England
- Her later books had to be cobbled together from earlier drawings.
- A lost work of her's was recently rediscovered.
- She also farmed sheep
- You can visit her house
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