Her career as an author/illustrator began with mushrooms, painting and describing numerous species of fungi. She wrote her first children's book at the age of 36 and used her royalties to buy a sheep farm. At 47 she married her lawyer, and when she died at 77 she left 4,000 acres to England's National Trust. She was Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943.
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