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CANCELLED – Author Talk – The Women Who Saved the English Countryside, Matthew Kelly
May 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Matthew Kelly, Author of ‘The Women Who Saved the English Countryside’, will be speaking about his work on Friday 19th of May at Settle Community Library. Doors will open at 6.30pm and the talk will begin at 7pm. Tickets cost £3, (which will be donated to the Library), and are available from Limestone Books during opening hours.
The book is a vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women: Octavia Hill, Beatrix Potter, Pauline Dower, and Sylvia Sayer.
From the commons of London to the Lake District, Northumberland, and Dartmoor, these women protected the English landscape at a crucial period through a mixture of environmental activism, networking, and sheer determination. They grappled with the challenges that urbanization and industrial modernity posed to human well-being as well as the natural environment.
