Gertrude Bell was a lone woman in the male Muslim world of the Middle East, a famous author who wrote about the Arabs, an acknowledged archeologist, a courageous traveler who dined with china and crystal and dressed in extravagant clothes. And she was so much more. Gertrude was the first woman to be taken into…
Although she permitted fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems to be published during her lifetime, today Emily Dickinson is considered one of America’s greatest poets and has remained continuously in print since 1890. For this performance, the year is 1880. You are Emily’s special guest at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Let’s hear what this brilliant, reclusive woman has to say. Adapted and performed by Betsey Means, Artistic Director of Womanlore. Betsey recently brought us Juliette Gordon Low (Girl Scouts), Mother Jones, and A Holocaust Memoir.
Actor, Betsey Means, of WomanLore, brings us the book Daisy’s Girls, in which she portrays wealthy socialite Juliette Gordon Low, who, upon meeting the founder of the Boy Scouts, devotes the rest of her life to organizing, forming, and fundraising for the Girl Scouts of America. We’ve invited a Girl Scout troop to join us in the audience and then sell Girl Scout
cookies afterward!