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...winter of 1943, aged 77, died Mrs. William Heelis of Sawrey, president-elect of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association and one of the shrewdest farmers in England's Lake District. Many of the shepherds who followed her to the graveside knew that long, long ago her name had been Beatrix Potter, and that she had come among them from London, where she had written books for children. But they also recalled that anyone who had dared to speak the name of Potter-to say nothing of Peter Rabbit-in the presence of Mrs. Heelis had been shown the door...
...years passed, the parents of the thousands of children who devoured her books took it for granted that Beatrix Potter was long since dead-a notion that Mrs. Heelis of Sawrey did her best to encourage. The few who unveiled her incognita and greeted her as a great artist were received with "the searching, expressionless stare of a little animal." Then she would shout: "Great rubbish! Absolute bosh...
...also wriggled forever into the lives of millions. Last week news reached the U.S. that Peter Rabbit's creator was dead. The end had come three days before Christmas to 77-year-old Mrs. William Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), wife of a British solicitor, mistress of Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Westmorland, England, artist and author of some of the best-known children's books ever published...
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