Biography and studies

• The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project at the University of Pittsburgh has a very detailed study of Beatrix Potter as well as several other early illustrators.
• Denise Ortakales has an excellent guide to women illustrators, with Potter, Kate Greenaway, Wanda Gag, Millicent Sowerby, and many others. The site includes biography, bibliography and illustrations.
• Frederick Warne, Potter's British publisher (and her fiancé, who died before they could marry), has a comprehensive site, covering her life, art, animals, as well as the books.
• For a general perspective, Cynthia Burlingham's Picturing Childhood draws on the collections of the University of California to show the development of illustration through the 19th century, and Kay Vandergrift's various studies (including history, illustration, female voices) are well worth reading. 
• The Beatrix Potter Society has extensive material on her life and work, and the Visit Cumbria tourist site shows many of the sites she used.
• This essay, from The Journal of the Print World , looks at imagination in her art.

Texts

• Kids' Corner at Ohio University has nine stories, (including Peter Rabbit and Jeremy Fisher) with illustrations in a slide show
• The University of Virginia has 14 Potter tales with illustrations, while the Tate Gallery from London has text and illustrations of The Tailor of Gloucester on-line.

And lastly, why not do a bit of searching. The ubiquitous Google or Alta Vista build good results from your search. Try "Beatrix Potter" as a name, as well as descriptors such as children's literature, illustrations or illustrators or illustrat*, history in various combinations, along with Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Mrs Tiggywinkle and so on.

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