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She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913.  <i>The Tale of Peter Rabbit</i> (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nWhen Beatrix Potter was presented with a copy of <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland </i> as a child, she was immediately ‘absorbed with Tenniel’s illustrations’. Before publishing her own stories, Potter illustrated fairy tales and classic texts, including <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i>, to amuse herself and to develop her technique. In the 1890s her pet rabbit, Peter Piper, became the model for Potter’s own illustrations of the White Rabbit. \r\n","physicalDescription":"A watercolour over pencil illustration of a white rabbit in a blue coat running along a long wood-panelled corridor, pulling on his white gloves as he runs. The illustration sits within a rough pencil border. 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