Miss Potter, the film about the life of Beatrix Potter, opens in the UK in the New Year (www.misspottermovie.co.uk)
It would seem that not only did Beatrix Potter have a love of nature, she was an accomplished botanical artist, and it is also claimed that “an uncle attempted to introduce her as a student at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, but she was rejected because she was female” (wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter)