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About Beatrix Potter >Hill Top FarmBeatrix was bursting with ideas, and produced on average two books every year until 1910. The money she earned gave her some independence, although she was still living at home with her mother and father. In 1905 Beatrix's editor, Norman Warne, proposed marriage. In spite of opposition from her parents (who considered him 'trade' and therefore beneath them), Beatrix accepted, but his early death from pernicious anaemia only a few weeks later tragically ended the engagement. The same year, she bought her first property in the Lake District, Hill Top Farm in the village of Sawrey. After Norman Warne's death she spent as much time as she could there.The farm and surrounding countryside began to appear in her stories, and some of her best-loved illustrations show Lakeland scenes that have remained unchanged to this day.
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