To protect the beauty of her new home, she used her excess income to keep neighboring farmland out of the hands of developers, eventually donating more than 4,000 acres of farmland to a national trust. Eventually her writings earned her enough money to buy a farm in the Lake District, where she continued to draw and write until her eyesight failed her. It took until 1902 before the first - Peter Rabbit - was published, though. In 1893, still unmarried despite her parent's wishes, she began writing and illustrating her own children's books. In 1890, she began illustrating greeting cards, using her pet rabbits as models more often than not. But Victorian England didn't even think women should have "their own" money or property, much less a career in a "man's world." Her innate intelligence and ability to observe and document minute details of nature should have given her a scientific career.
Supposedly tutored (but largely ignored) by her governess, she had many long hours to spend alone with a growing menagerie of pets, which she taught herself to draw in startlingly accurate detail and proportion. Beatrix Potter was born to a wealthy family in London, England in 1866.
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