For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently. In the years before the First World War, demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. Beatrix has created some of the best-loved characters in children's literature.īeatrix Potter was born in London in 1866.
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