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About Beatrix Potter >Farming & ConservationIn 1913, at the age of forty-seven, Beatrix married William Heelis, a local solicitor, and made Sawrey her permanent home. Writing and painting began to take second place to farming, sheep-breeding and buying stretches of the beautiful Lakeland countryside to ensure their conservation. For the last thirty years of her life, farming and the preservation of land were to become her main concerns, and when she died in 1943 she left over 4,000 acres of land and fifteen farms to the nation.
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