Beatrix Potter Gifts and Collectables
Beatrix Potter's most popular character is Peter Rabbit. Peter was a real rabbit, one of the many rabbits which Beatrix kept as a pet - "My rabbit Peter is so lazy, he lies before the fire in a box, with a little rug."
Her other rabbits were called Josephine, Mopsy, Flopsy and Benjamin, Benjamin and Peter were Belgian rabbits. "Peter might have got away altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry net, and got caught" From The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902).
