In 1905, Beatrix Potter bought a 34-acre Lake District farm with royalties from Peter Rabbit; it soon had sheep, cows, pigs, ducks and hens | World News
Beatrix Potter used the success of The Tale of Peter Rabbit to buy Hill Top, a 17th-century farmhouse and 34-acre farm in the Lake District village of Near Sawrey, in 1905. Potter was 39 and had already published six books with Frederick Warne & Co when she bought the property with proceeds from Peter Rabbit…