Price
- £8.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: Atkinsons Upper Hall
In Conversation with Jo Baker
From Peter Rabbit to Mrs Tiggy-winkle, The Tailor of Gloucester to The Fairy Caravan, the works and characters of Beatrix Potter have bewitched children the world over for more than a century – and have never been out of print.
Now, Penny Bradshaw goes beyond the books we think we know to uncover their origins in Potter’s life and explore the whole range of her writing, from essays on fungi to a retelling of the ‘Blue Beard’ story. Entries like D is for Dancing, G is for Ginnett’s Circus and U is for Uncanny reveal a far more varied and diverse writer than we ever expected. Providing a close-up encounter with one of the most celebrated children’s authors, Penny Bradshaw invites new recognition of the ways in which Beatrix Potter’s writing explores ideas which remain deeply relevant today, including the relationship between humans and the natural environments they inhabit.
Authors:
Penny Bradshaw Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria, where she is Programme Leader for the MA in Literature, Romanticism and the English Lake District.
Jo Baker is the author of the bestselling Longbourn. Her latest novel is The Midnight News.
AGE GUIDANCE: 16+
