Beatrix Potter is known throughout the world as the author-illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, one of the most beloved and cherished books in the global library of children’s literature. However, what few of her fans know is that she was an extraordinarily gifted woman who was decades beyond the limitations forced upon women in the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries, especially in Great Britain’s Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the very least, Beatrix Potter was exceptionally talented as a writer, artist, storyteller, scientist, gardener, farmer, preservationist, conservationist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Perhaps the most impressive of her exceptional accomplishments is that they occurred during a time frame when gifted women suffered terrible discrimination because of their sex.