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ヴィクトリア時代の上層中流階級の子どもとして育ったビアトリクス・ポターは,家庭教師がその教育を受け持ち,学校に行かなかった為,同年代の友達もいない生活であった。その様な寂しい暮らしの中で,絵を描き,小動物と触れ合い,ロンドン郊外の祖父母の家や,家族で行く避暑地の自然に心惹かれ,後に動物が主人公のファンタジーを生み出すこととなる。独立心旺盛なピーター・ラビット等,数々の動物を童話の主人公として描き出した。ピーターには,制限された実生活で彼女が成し得なかったことを託したものと思われる。ポターの絵は,博物学者の正確な観察力を見せ,動物達があたかも人間模様を描くかの様な文章と補い合って,珠玉の名品を生み出した。1890年にポターは,ウサギを描いた自分の絵を出版社に売ることに成功し,自信を得て,童話を出版することを思い付いた。その後,次々成功する出版の利益は,彼女が愛した湖水地方の土地を買うことに充てられ,ナショナル・トラスト運動の創始者の一人,ハードウィック・ローンズリーの影響もあり,自然保護運動の協力者として大いに貢献した。47歳で結婚してからは,作家活動から遠のき,羊を育てながら,農民として暮らした。動物や周囲の自然を描く作家としての生涯を経て,彼女は,農民として,自然保護者として生きる理想を実現した。

Beatrix POTTER grew up as a child of an upper middle class family in the Victorian age. She was taught by governesses, so she did not attend any schools where she could have made friends of about the same age. In such a lonely childhood, she passed her days in drawing pictures, and she found her joy in keeping small animals and in visiting the summer resorts with her family as well as her grandparents' house in the London suburbs. The interests and the summer resort life encouraged her to write the stories of animal fantasy. She created many characters, such as Peter Rabbit, who tries to be independent of his family. Beatrix seems to have had Peter do what she could not do in her real confined life. POTTER's pictures show her accurate observation as a naturalist, and her stories have the animals acting like human beings. These two elements, her pictures and stories, work to complement each other and make her masterpieces. In 1890 POTTER succeeded to sell her pictures of rabbits to a publisher. She felt confident of herself and thought of issuing her storybooks. She could earn money from the publication and spent part of the money to buy land in the Lake District, her favorite place. Being influenced by Hardwicke RAWNSLEY, one of the founders of The National Trust, she contributed to the campaign for conservation of nature. After she got married at 47 years old, she retired from writing stories and lived as a farmer, breeding sheep. Through her life as a writer depicting animals and the surrounding nature, she realized the ideals of her life in living as a farmer and a conserver of nature. She enjoyed nature, and wrote stories about it, and tried to conserve it. This was Beatrix POTTER's life.

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