It was during family holidays in the Lake District that the young Beatrix Potter had become entranced by nature, carefully drawing pictures of the wildlife around her. She was soon illustrating greetings cards and was encouraged to write by a family friend. Her first book, Peter Rabbit , was published in 1902 by her publisher friend, Frederick Warn who would publish all twenty-four of her books during the next thirty years.
In 1905, she bought her first farm in the Lake District and began to indulge her other passion, hill farming. During the 1920s, she became an expert in breeding Herdwick sheep, becoming the first woman president of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders Association. By the time of her she death she had acquired 14 farms and 4000 acres of land.
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