1039 Avenue Wolfe
Ville de Québec
QC G1V 5B3
The Life and Times of Beatrix Potter
Presenter: Meb Reisner
Tuesday and Wednesday December 13th and 14th (Two-part series)
Beatrix Potter is a familiar and much loved author of such children’s classics as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, but her own story is less well known.
An amateur artist, naturalist and secret chronicler from her early childhood, she was able to escape the repressive world of her Victorian upbringing, survive a tragic love story, brave the unfamiliar world of publishers and publishing, and reinvent herself as a passionate environmentalist.
Participants will explore the magical world which Potter invented and into which she escaped, examine her meticulously observed characters, and follow her career as she re-invents herself at least three times in the course of a long, eventually happy and remarkably unusual life.
Tuesday AND Wednesday December 13th and 14th
Venue: Valcartier Family Centre, 1039 avenue Wolfe,
Ste. Foy, (QC) G1V3J9
Time: 10am – noon
Free parking. Suitable for all mobility levels.