Beatrix Potter; William Heelis

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Beatrix Potter; William Heelis

by Clarence Edmund Fry & Son
sepia-toned print, 1913
5 3/4 in. x 4 in. (147 mm x 102 mm)
Purchased, 2013
Primary Collection
NPG P1824

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This photograph was taken on the occasion of the engagement of Potter to Heelis. They married on 15 October 1913. No photographs of the wedding day exist, although Potter's father Rupert, a barrister and prolific amateur photographer, did photograph the couple the previous day in the back garden of the Potter family home in Kensington, London. The ceremony was a quiet one and took place in the local church of St Mary Abbots. A shared love of nature, the countryside, farming and the preservation of rural life contributed to their happy marriage of thirty years.

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Current affairs

The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.

Art and science

Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.

International

Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.

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