Plymouth Public Library Beatrix Potter: The Woman Behind The Rabbit

Press release from the Plymouth Public Library:

May 6, 2021

Join us on Zoom on Monday, May 17 at 7:00pm to learn all about the life of Beatrix Potter. Presenter Betsy Bray will delight you with photographs and illustrations illuminating Potter’s history, with contemporary updates for context. Bray will cover Potter’s personal and family life along with her artistic development and love of nature. A wide variety of beautiful photographs will be shared of Potter, her family, landscapes of places from her life, pets, her journals and sketchbooks, and books from which she drew inspiration. Take a journey through Potter’s life, from her earliest sketches, to storytelling with friends, to publishing, as well as her years of maintaining her country properties.

Betsy Bray lives on Cape Cod and has been a member of the UK based Beatrix Potter Society for 37 years. She served as the first overseas Trustee of the Society and has given presentations all over the world. To learn more, visit her website www.betsybray.org.

To sign up for this talk, follow this link.

This press release was produced by the Plymouth Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.